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Ma & Pa Kettle the Egg and I | 
| Director: Chester Erskine
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred Macmurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride
Studio: Mca (Universal)
Category: Video
Buy Collectible: CDN$ 18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 439
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 3.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 630310374X
UPC: 096898031738
EAN: 9786303103747
ASIN: 630310374X
Theatrical Release Date: May 1947
Release Date: August 6, 1996
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Condition: Original and authentic....exactly as shown....excellent condition...NOT a former rental...private collection...plays flawlessly!!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 A Funny Movie Based on a Hilarious Book June 19, 2004
"The Egg & I", a movie based on the book of the same title, is entertaining, clean( you can let the kids watch this one), and funny. It's not quite as funny as the book, though.
Claudette Colbert is perfectly cast as Betty, the convenience-loving city girl who gets much more than she bargains for when she marries Bob, who is bent on pursuing his dream of owning a chicken ranch.
The ranch turns out to be isolated and primitive even by chicken ranch standards.
Poor Betty is forced to adjust quickly, and does so reluctantly and clumsily.
Those who read the book before seeing the movie may be a little puzzled by the appearance of "the other woman", who is absent from the book.
My suggestion: Read the book, then buy the movie, but don't expect the latter to be exactly like the former.
Both are VERY worthwhile buys, though.
If you have to choose between the movie and the book, I'd suggest going for the book.
The movie is very worthwhile, especially if you want a film that the whole family can enjoy.
Good clean fun... recommended! May 21, 2004
A genuinely funny, old-school comedy, featuring Fred MacMurray as a city slicker gone country boy, a white collar executive who decides to chuck it all in and become a chicken farmer, somewhere deep in the boonies, and Claudette Colbert as his long-suffering, stand-by-her-man, newlywed wife. Both actors have superb comic timing, and their chemistry together-- he blithely missing her every disatisfaction, she gulping back her exasperation -- is quite good. This was also the first movie to feature the iconic "hick" couple, Ma & Pa Kettle, a Lil Abner-ish pair who went on to make several films together after this debut. I suspect this film, however, is the best of the lot. Recommended!
 This is very funny! March 16, 2004
Hi. I'm Aaron ... . Not only video game expert, but movie expert. Thank you, thank you. I couldn't laugh hard enough. Betty dances with all kinds of men, meets interresting people, falls in mud, gets ditched by her husband (or so she thinks), allows people to chatter her ears off, makes mistakes all the time, watches people act like pigs, lives around lunatics (and bears it), faints in the middle of crowds, bases her life around chickens, and bears all of it. Ma and Pa Kettle are part of this movie. You should watch it!
Its a classic February 26, 2004
I saw this movie when I was a little girl.I remember I laugh so
hard and now that I am much much older the movie is even funnier. They dont make good clean, fun movies like that anymore.
Funnier than a chicken head on ice! December 3, 2002
Okay, that doesn't make any sense. This is a movie, based on the book by the same name, I think. An amusing, story about two city folks who move to hicksville to start a farm. This is all the husband's brilliant idea. The wife would prefer the city life, but she goes along with hubby, who never mentioned any of this stuff until AFTER the wedding. Whoops!
So they get a dilapidated (what else) farm house and fix it up. They work the land, build a chicken coup, clean the giant wood burning stove, acquire a country hound dog and meet the local Indians.
To make things interesting, their neighbors are Ma and Pa Kettle and their umpteen wild kids. (If Ma's breasts hung any lower she'd be stepping on them, she occasionally nudges them upwards, as they get in the way of her quilt-makin' and stew slinging!)Pa is a scoundral and a borrower, and Ma turns out to be a good hearted friend to Claudette Colbert.
Then there's the fancy lady farmer who lures Fred MacMuuray with her high tech chicken farming equipment (I'm not kidding.) Well, Claudette gets jealous, as Fred is blindly manipulated by fancy chicken lady.
There's also a fire, a country fair, and Ma and Pa Kettle's eldest and amzingly educated and clean cut son.
A funny, and fun movie!
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