Commentary
Have you ever wanted to get away from the strife, complication, and corruption of modern society? Perhaps you’ve dreamed of escaping it all and living a simple, wholesome life on a chicken farm. Getting away from the excessive technology and pollution of modern life may seem like a 21st-century phenomenon, but escapism is nothing new. Bob MacDonald has the same idea after World War II in “The Egg and I” from 1947.
Directed by Chester Erskine, this Universal Picture stars Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert in their sixth of seven film pairings. Two of the co-stars include Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, who originated their roles of Ma and Pa Kettle in this film. They would go on to play this comical pair of country bumpkins in nine more feature-length Kettle films over the next ten years….