Here we are with a "Well, Doctor, here I am again!" movie, following FOUR DAUGHTERS and FOUR WIVES. Claude Raines is back as daddy, with four grand daughters -- two of them twins -- and everyone is very happy as Frank McHugh's Florida development is making them all rich. But then there's a hurricane and tidal wave down south, the development is wiped out, and everyone in town turns against them for their lost speculation. The family has lost everything, and Raines is fired from his job at the music institute.
It's certainly pleasant to see them back again, but they've lost the A talent behind the camera, with the screenplay written by Stephen Morehouse Avery -- one Oscar nomination, but mostly forgotten -- and William Keighley directing. It's one of those movies that makes use of the old saying that if you want G*d to laugh, make plans, and requires a deus ex machina to sort out the problems. Essentially, it's a B series movie with a fine cast that you can forget as soon as the movie ends.
It's certainly pleasant to see them back again, but they've lost the A talent behind the camera, with the screenplay written by Stephen Morehouse Avery -- one Oscar nomination, but mostly forgotten -- and William Keighley directing. It's one of those movies that makes use of the old saying that if you want G*d to laugh, make plans, and requires a deus ex machina to sort out the problems. Essentially, it's a B series movie with a fine cast that you can forget as soon as the movie ends.