Excellent but underrated film

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Released in 1954, The Long, Long Trailer was made during the I Love Lucy era, and in it Lucy and Desi play slightly domesticated versions of their characters in I Love Lucy. Instead of a bandleader, Desi is apparently some kind of civil engineer. To cope with his being away on projects, Lucy comes up with the romantic idea of buying a trailer to live in so they can travel together without living in rented rooms or hotels. The difficulty of towing the big trailer behind their Mercury Monterey convertible is the plot of the movie. Such a concept is achieved mostly through set pieces, some of which go on painfully long. Some also seem taken from the much better Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Trailer." One of the set pieces near the end, a trip up a narrow mountain road with the overweight trailer, was actually filled with tension for me, and might be the best part of the movie.I watched this movie on TCM and the Ansco color was terrible. I don't know if this is because Ansco was a poor process or just because this was a bad print. It's unfortunate, because there was some otherwise spectacular scenery. Another visual defect for me was that scenes in a trailer park, and some other outdoor scenes too, were obviously shot on an indoor sound stage. You can tell even by the kind of dead sound. Since I mention the trailer parks, one oddity was that the society within, while folksy, bears no resemblance to the social dystopia we'd expect in a contemporary trailer park. There are really no invidious class hints.With Lucy's being a superstar, one would think that she should in some way be the hero of the movie. However, she's deeply annoying with her insistence on doing things her way with the trailer. There's one scene where she wants to drive and does so recklessly. It was also her fault that the trailer was too heavy for the mountain road. I was a fan of I Love Lucy, and I realize that the crucial part of making the madcap Lucy tolerable in the show was the resistance that Ricky, Fred, and Ethel exerted against her. Also, I don't know whether it's because I encountered her at a very young age, but Lucy has always seemed utterly sexless to me, very "aunt-like." Unlike some actors, who can plausibly play younger than their real age, Lucy, for me, is unable to do so. Therefore, it's disturbing to see her in romantic scenes, even if they're quite chaste. This movie is only mildly entertaining.

Sorry, no laughs in this flick. Is it possible to watch a whole movie and not find one thing worth laughing at? This movie was made at the height of the I Love Lucy TV popularity. I'm sure the Arnazes thought they could crank out a movie quickly and make a bundle. With their names changed slightly (Ricky is Nicky and Lucy is Tacy) the "plot" such as it is revolves around them buying a trailer and going on a honeymoon trip with the thing. Lots of "merriment" ensues. You'd never guess that things weren't going to go wonderfully. What a shock when accidents happen. Yes, I was a huge Lucy fan way back when. Many of the I Love Lucy TV shows are still funny. This movie isn't. They use every stale gag in the book. The only thing I found interesting was the vehicles in the movie. And the movie was in color. Skip it unless your idea of funny is somebody falling into a swimming pool. Which thankfully doesn't happen in this movie.

Released in 1954 - The Long, Long Trailer (TLLT, for short) was very much like watching a very, very long, long episode (90 minutes) of the highly-popular "I Love Lucy" TV Show of the early 1950's.Now, don't get me wrong here - I can certainly enjoy watching an extended episode of "I Love Lucy"', now, and again. But I found that with TLLT there seemed to be something slightly out of kilter with its story - Something oddly unbalanced.It seemed to me that TLLT was missing a vitally important element in its "comedy relief" department.What I'm talking about here is, of course, the much needed input of actors William Frawley and Vivian Vance, as Fred and Ethel Mertz, into TLLT's comic story. Believe me, these 2 characters were most desperately needed several times throughout the course of TLLT as a buffer to counter the often amusing, but sometimes annoying, domestic squabbles of Nicky and Tracy (aka Ricky and Lucy Ricardo).But, with that all said - TLLT was still fairly entertaining as far as comedies go. But it certainly wasn't great.

i found this gem starring the husband and wife team of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz quite enjoyable there are a lot of funny moments here here,most of them of the laugh out loud,belly laugh variety.from start to finish,this is one immensely entertaining film.but then,with these two comedic geniuses at the helm,how could it not be.that one scene where they are climbing up the mountain road is something else.although the film is 103 minutes,it moves at a very quick pace,and is over before you know it.if you're a fan of classic movies and you're feeling down,throw this film in,it's guaranteed to pick you up.for me,The Long, Long Trailer is an 8/10