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Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Paris (a.k.a. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation) |
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Hard-working Ma and Pa Kettle (Main and Kilbride) decide it's high time to get off the farm and they skedaddle to Paris. Lots of the humor in this is based on the homespun hillbillies being out of place in the sophisticated city. The holiday gets further complicated –- as if traveling with your in-laws wasn't enough -- when the Kettles become entangled with spies. Never really answers the question “How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree.” That would be done in further installments in the series.
This is the fifth in the series of Ma and Pa Kettle films, based on characters from the 1947 film “The Egg and I.” The series was exceedingly popular. Rita Moreno has a cameo.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Paris (a.k.a. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation) |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Kind of comedy
- bungling spies
- vacation or seeing foreign culture
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Profession/status:
- spy
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
- wealthy
- Paris
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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