Four young boys and one grown-up piece of female work. That is the issue of inventor Edward Everett Horton who is the zaniest of the lot, inventing a self-inflating life raft that sinks under the weight of human mass. The neighbors are relieved when they must go away so Horton can demonstrate the raft to the government. Poor Jon Hall is given the displeasure of sharing his compartment on the train to San Diego where Louise Albritton, as the dizzy daughter causes all sorts of calamity wherever she goes, eventually winning millionaire Hall over in spite of her ability to crate havoc wherever she goes.
This deliciously funny farce takes on big city overcrowding in the face of war and what the war does not need is somebody like the well-meaning Albritton on its side. On a bike, she's dangerous on her own small town street and in a big city, she stirs up the populace everywhere she goes. A black eye received accidentally results in a public riot and a bus driver decides out of the blue to change his route after ten years thanks to her.
The kids are very funny, annoying Hall on the train, we living neighbors wacky with their nonsense, and turning a large cashier's check into a paper airplane. Irene Ryan and Eric Blore add more comic misery, with Ryan going to the wrong address after renting a room, and Blore refusing to leave as the retained butler after Albritton buys a huge white elephant mansion Horton does not wish to move into. This is war era farce at its funniest, and if I would not want to encounter this family in person, they are adorable on screen.
This deliciously funny farce takes on big city overcrowding in the face of war and what the war does not need is somebody like the well-meaning Albritton on its side. On a bike, she's dangerous on her own small town street and in a big city, she stirs up the populace everywhere she goes. A black eye received accidentally results in a public riot and a bus driver decides out of the blue to change his route after ten years thanks to her.
The kids are very funny, annoying Hall on the train, we living neighbors wacky with their nonsense, and turning a large cashier's check into a paper airplane. Irene Ryan and Eric Blore add more comic misery, with Ryan going to the wrong address after renting a room, and Blore refusing to leave as the retained butler after Albritton buys a huge white elephant mansion Horton does not wish to move into. This is war era farce at its funniest, and if I would not want to encounter this family in person, they are adorable on screen.