Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second installment of UniversalInternationals Ma and Pa Kettle franchise starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.

Ma and Pa Kettle go to New York City, where their son Tom and daughterinlaw Kim live while Tom is trying to finance his chicken incubator from the first movie. The bag Pa agreed to bring to New York, containing 100,000 from the bank robbery, was not with their luggage when they checked into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. He buys several new bags to give to Louie, but each time the empty new bag is stolen by one of Louies confederates, who believe Pa is also a crook trying to keep part of the cash. Finally Pa agrees to meet Louie by the monkey cage at the Central Park Zoo with yet another bag.Pa is mistaken by the police for a maniac poisoning monkeys at the zoo and arrested. Tom convinces the police of Pas innocence and helps them unravel the mystery of the bags and the identity of Mr. Jones. The missing bag is found in the luggage of a rich investor who invites the Kettles to his home for a party, where the police are able to round up the entire gang with the bag of money as evidence. The investor makes a deal with Tom to finance his invention. The Kettles return home to discover that the harried Jones has been overwhelmed by thewild Kettle children and hogtied in a game of cops and robbers, then turned over to police rushing to the house to protect them. ........

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