Let me pose a question to anyone who's seen both this film and the 1942 flick "George Washington Slept Here" with Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan. Who would you say had the more ramshackle house that the leading couple moved into to chase a dream? Quite honestly I couldn't tell after seeing both pictures, and wouldn't want to live in either one. Of course, both homes wound up as House and Garden fashion statements later on, notwithstanding the fire that burned out the MacDonald's in this picture.
This is the film that introduced Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) to the movie going public, who became a huge comedy hit with a series of movies during the Fifties. You can see why with their homespun approach to country living and raising a huge family. This would not be your expected setting for a Fred MacMurray/Claudette Colbert team up, but they make it work as a transplanted couple intent on making it by raising chickens and selling their eggs. I hazard to think how many dozen they'd need to sell in order to survive from scratch, but that's the story and you'll have to go along with it.
I guess this would also have been the film to introduce those two spacey Indian characters going by Geoduck (John Berkes) and Crowbar (Victor Potel). Both returned to the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed by different actors over the course of that run. Richard Long, who played oldest Kettle son Tom in this story, also returned three more times during the Fifties, beginning with the first film in the series, "Ma and Pa Kettle". In an odd bit of movie casting trivia, Long appeared as the son of Claudette Colbert in the 1946 film, "Tomorrow is Forever"!
This is the film that introduced Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) to the movie going public, who became a huge comedy hit with a series of movies during the Fifties. You can see why with their homespun approach to country living and raising a huge family. This would not be your expected setting for a Fred MacMurray/Claudette Colbert team up, but they make it work as a transplanted couple intent on making it by raising chickens and selling their eggs. I hazard to think how many dozen they'd need to sell in order to survive from scratch, but that's the story and you'll have to go along with it.
I guess this would also have been the film to introduce those two spacey Indian characters going by Geoduck (John Berkes) and Crowbar (Victor Potel). Both returned to the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed by different actors over the course of that run. Richard Long, who played oldest Kettle son Tom in this story, also returned three more times during the Fifties, beginning with the first film in the series, "Ma and Pa Kettle". In an odd bit of movie casting trivia, Long appeared as the son of Claudette Colbert in the 1946 film, "Tomorrow is Forever"!