Old married couple Gordon Harker and Betty Balfour (in her last screen role) are scheduled to take a Mediterranean cruise. They wimp out and go to Bognor Regis, leaving son Jimmy Hanley and daughter Jill Evans to manage the suburban house. But Hanley gets involved with a married woman, and Miss Evans gets engaged to Hubert Gregg, and there are issues to sort out before a satisfactory ending to the movie.
I was particularly surprised by this tempest-in-a-teacup domestic comedy coming out in 1945. With the War raging, did the film makers really think people would be interested in clearly pre-war goings on? Perhaps it was seen as a return to normalcy, a time in which people could break an engagement because of wedding gifts. It might have played well in 1938, but...
Looking at it as a movie from seven years earlier, it's a pleasantly performed comedy. Harker and Miss Balfour are amusing as the ossified elder couple, and the tiffs among the younger folks are clearly the sort of issues to be settled quickly in the third act, just the sort of movie to serve as a pleasant evening out at the suburban local theater.... a lifetime earlier.
