Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

curt-simpkins This is a great movie. I could do without Fabian, he can't sing worth a darn but I guess he provides some eye candy for the female audience. The duet he does with Laurie Peters proves that she is a much better singer than he could ever be. I do appreciate the scene in which Fabian's character "Joe" returns the $5.00 to Stewart's character. That indicates that "Joe" has honor and integrity. I do have a trivia question though: Fairly early in the film there is a scene in the Hobbs' bedroom with Stewart and O'Hara. Behind them there is a figurine, a sculpture of a female head that also appears in other films, to name a couple of them "Harvey" (also with James Stewart) and "D Day the sixth of June". I am certain that I am forgetting other films in which this sculpture appears. Does anyone know why this art piece appears in several different films? There must be a reason for it.

tarnower I always watch this movie when I can. There's so many perfect situations in it.Most of the reviews have gone over the family dynamic involved. People nowadays don't know the significance of ground breaking movies in those days. This movie may have been the first glimpse of a reunited family that didn't step out of a Norman Rockwell painting. They have real life problems with finances, fidelity and maintaining a cohesive family unit.There are some perfectly defined moments in the film. Hobbs marveling at a 50 year old light bulb, or the maid quitting because she misunderstood him when he said he was going to get "some sun on the beach".The one scene that chokes me up every time is when Stewart shows O'Hara the $5 bill that Fabian returned to him after the dance.

AaronCapenBanner Jimmy Stewart plays a St. Louis bank executive who goes on vacation with his wife(Maureen O'Hara) and children on a beach front house in California, where his planned romantic getaway with his wife does not go as planned, since the children get involved with their own problems(his lovelorn teenage daughter and young son who only wants to watch television, especially westerns!) On top of that, the plumbing does not work properly at times, especially a water pump with a mind of its own.Amusing comedy is quite warm and funny, with a charming performance by Jimmy Stewart as the harried father, whose attempts at sailing and bird-watching also meet with mixed results, but film remains a nostalgic comedy of a (sadly) bygone era, but one that can still be enjoyed on DVD whenever the viewer likes.

edwagreen The pitfalls of taking a family vacation are depicted in this 1962 comedy with James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara.The couple trade plans for a vacation in France to a beach house in the west. Everything seems to go wrong from the start. The plumbing stinks and the house is described as being one worse than Dragonwyck.Both grown daughters show up only to bicker with their husbands. John McGiver is perfectly cast as an eccentric guest who rather leads a dull life watching birds. Marie Wilson again shows her comedic gift as a dumb blond when she is locked in the bathroom with the Stewart character.Then there is the teenage daughter who is ashamed of her braces until she finds and falls for Fabian at a dance.The best part of the movie is that Stewart keeps emphasizing the importance of the family structure. The film goes down as it becomes an inane task of predictable situations and outcomes.