A 1962 James Stewart vehicle which takes the same route as the Cary Grant/Myrna Loy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House where here a vacationing family settles into a beachfront manse only to suffer the plagues of the damned (a feisty water boiler which doesn't work, a maid who wants no part of this vacay, 2 non-attentive kids, a comely Swedish neighbor almost always bikini clad eying poor Stewart, etc.). When the married kids show up w/their own brood & also another couple who're considering one of the jobless son-in-law's for a position, things get more complicated but by film's end, the family's harmony is assured w/another vacation to be had. Nothing especially remarkable here, other than a duet sung by Fabian & Stewart's lovelorn daughter at a diner, the film is on an even coast to its predictable finale. Also starring Maureen O'Hara as Stewart's wife, Natalie Trundy (she was in a few of the original Planet of the Apes films) as one of his daughters, the late, great John Saxon as one of his son-in-law's & John McGiver as a potential employer.
Review of Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
