Percy Kilbride Movies

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don’t hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy…

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan….

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had…

A fast-talking salesman is “kidnapped” by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.

Tom Kettle and his wife, Kim, and their baby, are happily living with his parents in their new home, until Kim’s uppity parents from Boston come for a visit. They…

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in…

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law’s parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter…

Elwin Kettle might win a scholarship to an agricultural college. Essay contest judges Mannering and Crosby decide to choose between the two finalists by spending a weekend at the home…

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney’s call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa…

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps;…

Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo…

New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have…