The Weaver family had me both rolling my eyes and laughing hysterically at the same time, enjoying every dated bit of comedy especially the musical specialties. The story focuses on the Weaver family confronting wealthy Thurston Hall who owns the farm they've been sharecropping for years, not realizing that he's in debt because of how the people involved in his business and his own family are spending his money.
Wife Marjorie Gateson spends more on fashion each month then she has ruined her closet for, and son Alan Ladd has brought over a bunch of French chorus girls in hopes of opening a nightclub. None of which that Hall can afford. So he disappears, leaving everything including his mansion to the Weaver's, and soon, there's an auction featuring live entertainment to pay off the bills.
There are lots of laughs coming from the pet duck and squirrel (that duck quacks more than Daffy and Donald combined), and the Weaver's (particularly the matriarch, Elviry, who highly resembles Margaret Hamilton) are genuinely funny, resembling the Beverly Hillbillies when they move into Hall's mansion and get a taste of high fallutin' livin'. An upbeat version of "When You Wore a Tulip" is the musical highlight. Silly, harmless fun, with the handsome young Ladd on the verge of stardom and Hall and Gateson an early version of the Howell's from "Gilligan's Island", especially considering Hall's first name.
Wife Marjorie Gateson spends more on fashion each month then she has ruined her closet for, and son Alan Ladd has brought over a bunch of French chorus girls in hopes of opening a nightclub. None of which that Hall can afford. So he disappears, leaving everything including his mansion to the Weaver's, and soon, there's an auction featuring live entertainment to pay off the bills.
There are lots of laughs coming from the pet duck and squirrel (that duck quacks more than Daffy and Donald combined), and the Weaver's (particularly the matriarch, Elviry, who highly resembles Margaret Hamilton) are genuinely funny, resembling the Beverly Hillbillies when they move into Hall's mansion and get a taste of high fallutin' livin'. An upbeat version of "When You Wore a Tulip" is the musical highlight. Silly, harmless fun, with the handsome young Ladd on the verge of stardom and Hall and Gateson an early version of the Howell's from "Gilligan's Island", especially considering Hall's first name.