Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' is a 1948 American musical comedy film directed by George Sherman and starring Donald O'Connor. Also featured are Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, (who later reprised essentially the same roles as Ma and Pa Kettle), with Penny Edwards as the perky love interest. It was produced and distributed by Universal Studios. Included in the film is a dance routine, in a barn, to the Al Jolson song, "Me and My Shadow".

Plot
Wilbur McMurtry is a traveling salesman who is captured and held hostage by the local authorities in a small town. They wish to compel him to run in the annual foot-race against a rival town.

Cast

 * Donald O'Connor as Wilbur McMurty
 * Marjorie Main as Maribel Mathews
 * Percy Kilbride as Billy Caswell
 * Penny Edwards as Libby Mathews
 * Joe Besser as Sharkey Dolan
 * Harry Shannon as Chauncey
 * Fred Kohler Jr. as Emory Tuttle
 * Howland Chamberlain as Doc Overholt
 * Edmund Cobb as Stage Driver
 * Joel Friedkin as Stage Passenger
 * I. Stanford Jolley as Guard

Production
In January 1948 Universal announced they would make a film based on the magazine story The Wonderful Race at Rimrock which would be filmed the following month. It reunited Maine and Kilbride from The Egg and I. Maine was borrowed from MGM.

O'Connor has a dance number which involves running up a wall, which later inspired his "Make 'Em Laugh" routine in Singing in the Rain.