Ma and Pa Kettle Collection

10 movies

Ma and Pa Kettle have their hands full with a ramshackle farm and a brood of ramshackle children. When the future comes a-callin' in the form of modern houses, exotic locales and newfangled ideas, Ma and Pa must learn how to make the best of it with luck, pluck and a little country charm.

Movies

The Egg and I

7.0

1947

Movie

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.

The Egg and I

1947

7.0

Ma and Pa Kettle

7.1

1949

Movie

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.

Ma and Pa Kettle

1949

7.1

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

6.5

1950

Movie

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950

6.5

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

6.7

1951

Movie

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

1951

6.7

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

6.4

1952

Movie

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952

6.4

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

7.6

1952

Movie

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

1952

7.6

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

6.3

1954

Movie

The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholarship. However, who ever has the nicest looking farm and raises their kids in a good enviroment has a chance of winning.

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954

6.3

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

7.3

1955

Movie

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1955

7.3

The Kettles in the Ozarks

7.1

1956

Movie

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.

The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956

7.1

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

6.8

1957

Movie

Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

1957

6.8