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ACTOR
Marjorie MainPercy KilbrideRichard LongMeg Randall
DIRECTOR
Edward Sedgwick
SYNOPSICS
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) is a English movie. Edward Sedgwick has directed this movie. Marjorie Main,Percy Kilbride,Richard Long,Meg Randall are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1951. Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) is considered one of the best Comedy movie in India and around the world.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) Reviews
Who knows the most about raising kids?
Before Kim Parker met Tom Kettle, she had written about the importance of hygiene in raising a child. In Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm we see where she got that idea! The first Kettle grandchild is born, so Kim's parents travel to see their grandchild. After worrying about making a good impression upon meeting Kim's parents, Ma finds herself a new nemesis. Kim's mother is a nut who takes over the Kettles' house with her views on hygiene. She hires a nurse for the baby and makes everyone, including Ma, where a mask around the baby. It is abundantly clear that Ma knows how to take care of children. That absurdity makes the situation all the more funny. Kim's father befriends the Kettles and helps them when uranium is "discovered" on their old farm. With the newfound wealth is newfound trouble good for a few laughs. Familiar faces and settings returned once again in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm . Rather than recycle all the old jokes, only a couple made it into the movie. The modern house is only used for one gag, and the radio in the old house is used again. Pa still casually uses dynamite with all the danger it brings. There was enough continuity to respect the prior films while creating a new adventure and introducing more characters. With each movie in the series the sophistication of Ma Kettle becomes more and more apparent. Not only was she a vehicle for comedy, but for real human emotion. The balance was clearly a collaboration of everyone involved. Marjorie Main was given great scenes to work with. Despite being known for comedy, the Ma and Pa Kettle series had a subtle serious side as well.
Grandma and Grandpa Kettle
The film version of the best selling novel The Egg and I with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert introduced America to the Kettle family. Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride and their brood of 15. They were the rural answer to Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney's Cheaper by the Dozen. Who says country folk can't do it better. In this film we have the arrival of the Kettles first grandchild who Percy mistakes as another blessed event of his own creation. A natural mistake given his track record. The baby however is Meg Randall's who married their oldest son Richard Long in a previous film. The Kettles also have to contend with Meg's parents, Ray Collins and Barbara Brown. Ms. Brown is one snooty old dowager, but I think you can gather that if anyone could adjust her attitude, Marjorie Main could. Due to a pair of radioactive overalls, the Kettles also think they've got uranium on the old homestead. So do a pair of crooks who try to steal the place from them. The Kettles were a really popular item in what would now be called red state America back in the day. The pictures made money consistently for Universal and if Percy Kilbride hadn't decided to retire, I'm sure more would have been made. There was one more made with Arthur Hunnicutt as an in-law, but it wasn't the same without Mr. Kilbride. Marjorie Main retired not long after that last film also. If you are any kind of fan of those CBS rural shows of the sixties like Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, the Kettles are your cup of tea.
Not deep but entertaining.
Ma and Pa Kettle's oldest son, Tom, is a new father. However, when the in-laws arrive for a visit, it soon becomes apparent that Tom's mother-in-law is an obnoxious battle-axe. Not only does she have different attitudes about how to raise a child, but she has absolute contempt for anyone's ideas. She immediately takes over Ma & Pa's home and treats everyone like dirt--and her daughter seems perfectly content with this. There's only so much Ma & Pa can take, but instead of punching the woman's head in (a good diplomatic solution considering how pushy she is), they oddly decide to move their brood back to their dilapidated farm and let the in-laws stay in the ultra-modern home they won in the second Ma & Pa Kettle film. Once on the farm, a couple prospectors locate uranium on the land. But, instead of telling Pa about this, they tell him they want to buy the land to build a hunting lodge. However in a very bizarre accident, Pa discovers uranium on the land. While 100% impossible, these scenes where Pa becomes 'electrified' are pretty cute...and a bit silly. A bit later, Tom's suddenly insane wife has decided to listen to her battle-axe mother. Now she's announced that she's moving with the child to her parents' home in Boston--and leaving Tom behind! Considering that her character was nothing like this in previous films (where she was sweet and very rational), this is a major problem with this film. Soon after the mother announces she's absconding with the baby, the two prospectors return and announce that they have bought the farm out from under the Kettles! However, the last laugh turns out to be on these supposedly sharp prospectors. Mostly this is due to the nice father-in-law--a sharp contrast to his horrible wife. Next comes a race to the train to stop the dopey mother and evil mother-in-law. And b y the end of the film, Tom and his dopey wife have patched things up, the truth about the radioactivity on the Kettle farm has been determined and practically everyone is happy--especially the father-in-law who has FINALLY decided to stand up to the old battle-axe. While this is not a deep or complicated film, it is fun and if you've enjoyed the other Ma & Pa Kettle films, you certainly won't be disappointed with it. So ignore the silly or shallow parts of the plot and the poorly filmed car scene towards the end and enjoy.
another installment of Ma & Pa Kettle
One of the director's final films - Edward Sedgwick died two years after making this third chapter of Ma & Pa Kettle. In this one, after Kim, the daughter-in-law has a new baby, her snobby parents come to visit the Kettles in the fancy house that they had won in the first film. This also marks the first and last time I ever saw Marjorie Mains with her long hair down. Pa does a fun mathematics gag on the chalkboard, and on it goes. Ray Collins is Jonathan Parker - viewers will recognize Collins from the Perry Mason show, and the bazillion films he did in the 1940s. Also keep an eye out for a brief appearance by Harry Von Zell; in addition to all the voice-over work, he did numerous episodes on the "Burns and Allen" show. Swindlers try to buy the Kettles' old farmland when it turns out there's something valuable in it... (sound familiar...?) They do a good job of continuing the Kettle story, in spite of the fact that it has different writers. Fun way to spend about an hour and a half. A little more sadness and fighting in this one than the others, but still entertaining.
Top Notch Kettle Entry
MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM was the fourth film in the series and it's one of the best, with a number of laugh-out-loud lines and hilarious knockabout humor. The Kettles become grandparents as the film opens - endearing idiot Pa learning Ma is at the hospital and that "Mrs. Kettle" is expecting believes Ma is the one with child! The blessed event brings daughter-in-law Kim's parents to town and Ma immediately clashes with the haughty Mrs. Parker who proceeds to boss the whole Kettle household around, lays down the rules for interaction with the baby, and even decides to name the child over Tom and Kim's decision!! When the bickering gets too intense and threatens Tom and Kim's marriage, Ma decides to Pa and her and the kids will move back to the family's dilapidated rural house for a spell while the Parkers stay in the KETTLES fancy city home. Back home, Pa and local huckster Billy discover uranium on the homestead - and so do a couple of petty crooks from the big city. This entry has some of the funniest lines in the series and Pa's "14 goes into 25" skit is an unheralded gem that is funnier than Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" classic sketch. Mrs. Parker is a rather over the top caricature of a snooty city woman although Barbara Brown gives a good performance in the role. Her tirade against the Kettles Indian friends though is rather offensive even for the era though.though I loved Crowbar's retort when Pa informs him aristocratic Mrs. Parker's "ancestors came over on the Mayflower." "Hmmmph," says Crowbar, "that nothing. Mine there to greet them!"