Placide et Zoé

Original title: Ma and Pa Kettle

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Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Marjorie Main, and Meg Randall in Placide et Zoé (1949)

On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but a jealous local woman accuses him of having plag... Read allOn the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but a jealous local woman accuses him of having plagiarized his winning slogan.On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but a jealous local woman accuses him of having plagiarized his winning slogan.

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6.7/10

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Trivia
As the Kettles are shown the features of their new home, the newsreel footage on TV is that of the first flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules AKA "Spruce Goose". The H-4's first and only flight was on 2 November 1947, just 17 months prior to the release of this movie.

Goofs
When Ma puts the kids to bed, the covers are rumpled. When she attempts to turn off the lights, she hits the switch to put away the beds. When the beds come back down, 3 of the 4 beds are neatly made, and it can be seen that there are dolls instead of kids. In the next shot, they are as they were before they went into the wall.

Quotes
Mrs. Birdie Hicks: [after getting the Kettles evicted] Good day.
Ma Kettle: [grabs Birdie] Listen here, Birdie, it may be a good day for you, but it ain't for Pa. All the poor man wanted was a new tobacco pouch, and instead he won a house he didn't want and he got a bad sunburn.

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Probably the Real Inspiration For the Clampetts

This was the very first Ma and Pa Kettle film and it is probably the second ranked film in the series in terms of laughs (just behind Ma and Pa's trip to Hawaii). This is film definitely has all the elements that made the series great, boisterous Ma, lazy Pa and their wild brood of 15 (or is it 16?). Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride were perfectly cast in this film and made for a classic pairing that and they would become two of the most enduring characters in all of filmdom. The chemistry between the two made you actually think they were married and it made for a great time and made the whole series great.

Also, I often wonder if Paul Henning actually got his ideas for the "Beverly Hillbillies" from this film and not from the hillbillies he saw on his vacations.