Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) – a much-married man – wins a trip to New York in a slogan-writing competition for Bubble-ola soft drink.
He and Ma (Marjorie Main) need someone to look after their gazillion kids while they are gone, and bank robber Shotgun Mike Munger (Charles McGraw) offers to take on the job.
Unaware of Munger’s true profession (he professes to be a poet), the Kettles accept.
Pa also agrees to deliver a black bag to Munger’s associates in New York, little knowing that it is stuffed with $100,000 of stolen banknotes.
In New York, the Kettles find themselves mixed up with rival racketeers but survive. Meanwhile, their kids look after Munger!
This was the third of eight films in which Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle.
Released in some markets as Going To Town.
Ma Kettle
Marjorie Main Pa Kettle
Percy Kilbride Tom Kettle
Richard Long Kim Parker Kettle
Meg Randall Louie
Gregg Martell Shotgun Mike Munger
Charles McGraw Mrs Victoria Masterson
Kathryn Givney Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Rogers
Jim Backus Detective Sam Boxer
Elliott Lewis Harold Masterson
Paul McVey Dutch
Bert Freed Detective Mike Eskow
Hal March Danny Kettle
Dale Belding Ruthie Kettle
Margaret Brown George Kettle
Paul Dunn Sara Kettle
Diane Florentine Benjamin Kettle
Teddy Infuhr Henry Kettle
Jackie Jackson Susie Kettle
Sherry Jackson Sally Kettle
Donna Leary Eve Kettle
Beverly Mook Willie Kettle
Eugene Persson Nancy Kettle
Elana Schreiner Billy Kettle
J.P. Sloane
Director
Charles Lamont
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