Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)

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