When country bumpkin Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) enters a competition hoping to get a free tobacco pouch, he unexpectedly wins first prize: a brand-new modern house in the suburbs. Although Ma (Marjorie Main) quickly adapts to her new home's push-button conveniences, Pa is flummoxed by the newfangled technology. Meanwhile, the couple's more educated son, Tom (Richard Long), romances journalist Kim (Meg Randall), who's intrigued by how a man raised in rural poverty could become so successfu