Comedy | Family | USA | English | Colour | 116min | Director: Henry Koster
Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, Lauri Peters, Lili Gentle, John Saxon, John McGiver, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner, Valerie Varda, Natalie Trundy, Josh Peine, Michael Burns, Minerva Urecal, Richard Collier
Roger Hobbs (James Stewart) is a harried city dweller who longs to take his family to the seashore for a vacation.
He and his wife Peggy (Maureen O'Hara) do get the family to the sand, but new problems develop there, and the vacation turns out to be a mixed blessing.
James Stewart reunites with his Harvey director, Henry Koster, in this charming 1962 comedy.
It's pleasant, summery entertainment, with Stewart and his screen wife, Maureen O'Hara, taking their urban family to a crumbling, seaside house for a vacation.
The film was calculated to pull in older fans with Stewart as well as draw in a younger crowd that would enjoy the fairly extensive beach scenes with then pop-star Fabian. Stewart is deft with the easy jokes about bad plumbing and such, and golden in several nice moments where he gets to play an attentive dad to his kids.