I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

During the early part of his career, in the thirties and early forties, James Stewart appeared in some of the best-known American comedies of all time- "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", "Destry Rides Again", "The Shop around the Corner", "The Philadelphia Story", and so on. After his return from wartime service, however, his comic touch seemed to desert him; a number of his comedies from the late forties, such as "Magic Town", were flops. Even the now-revered "It's a Wonderful Life" was not a great success when first released. Stewart was to make one last great comedy, "Harvey", in 1950, but thereafter his career took a more serious turn, exemplified by his several collaborations with Hitchcock and the series of psychological Westerns he made with Anthony Mann. In the sixties, however, Stewart returned to comedy, and "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" from 1962 is an example. His character, Roger Hobbs, is a stressed, overworked banker from St Louis who takes his family on holiday to a quiet seaside cottage in California, only to find that he has brought most of his problems with him. The cottage turns out to be old-fashioned and dilapidated. His teenage son Danny is a sullen, moody youngster who only wants to watch television. His youngest daughter Katey refuses to leave the cottage and is obsessed with the idea that, because of a new set of dental braces, she will never find a boyfriend. His two elder daughters bring their husbands and children with them. One of Roger's sons-in-law, Stan, is unemployed and the other, Byron, is an eccentric academic with unorthodox ideas about how to discipline children. (Byron's preferred solution is that one should not discipline them at all). The film details how Roger tries to overcome all these problems (and, of course, this being a comedy, how he succeeds in doing so). The film it is based on "Mr. Hobbs' Vacation" by Edward Streeter, a book I have never read. Indeed, before I saw the film I had never heard of it or of its author. Yet when I watched the film recently, it seemed to me all too obvious that it was based upon a novel. The reason that I was able to make this prediction with such confidence is that the film-makers make one of the frequent mistakes committed by those who try to base films upon a literary source, namely that of trying to deal with more plot-lines and more thematic material than the traditional feature-film format can comfortably accommodate. (By coincidence, the next film I saw after this one, Delbert Mann's version of Dickens's "David Copperfield", is one which commits the same fault even more egregiously). The film features several plotlines- the Danny plotline, the Katey plotline, the Stan plotline and the Byron plotline- and none of these are dealt with as fully as they might have been. It is as if the scriptwriters were determined not to omit any developments from Streeter's story without worrying whether a running time of around two hours was long enough to do them all full justice. Some episodes struck me as implausible, especially the one in which Roger deals with Katey's lack of self-confidence by bribing a young man named Joe, played by the then-popular pop singer Fabian, to pay attention to her. (Like that would work in real life!) The scriptwriters seem to have overlooked the obvious obstacles to a romance between the handsome Joe and the rather homely Katey, namely firstly that she is from St Louis and he from California, more than a thousand miles away, and that he is likely to move onto another girl as soon as she has returned home. (A boy with the looks of Fabian will not want for female admirers). Stewart does enough to show that his gift for comedy had not entirely deserted him during his lengthy absence from the genre, and he receives good support from Maureen O'Hara as his attractive wife Peggy, even if she does look improbably youthful to be playing a grandmother to several children. There are also some amusing scenes, such as the one where Roger is forced to accompany Stan's pompous potential employer on a bird-watching expedition. Overall, however, ''Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" does not come close to the standard of Stewart's great comedies from his earlier period. 5/10

What happens if you put the 1950s Father character into a 1960s comedy movie? You get James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation. If you don't like the idea of a bumbling, well-meaning dad who doesn't really connect with his family on a vacation in which anything and everything goes wrong, look elsewhere. The rest of you keep reading.James Stewart, in a self-imposed era of no longer playing romantic leads, plays an unhappy hubby to Maureen O'Hara and father to Lauri Peters, Lili Gentle, and Natalie Trundy. When he plans a romantic vacation for just him and Maureen, she takes it into her head to show him the entire family loves and needs him, so all the children, in-laws, and grandchildren are invited to come along. There are endless gags to illustrate the generation gap, and lots of sixties music and dancing to give you a nostalgic kick. I found it tough to get my head around the idea that Jimmy and Maureen were grandparents, but maybe it was just me. Like many comedies from the decade, this isn't one I'd probably want to watch more than once, but it was a little entertaining at the time.

Clean-cut suburban clan, steadily splintering due to outside interests, grows closer during a summer at the beach after Pop rents a ramshackle manor on the shoreline. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara are a nice (if curiously low-keyed) marital match in this featherweight diversion for families, adapted from Edward Streeter's book by the esteemed Nunnally Johnson. There aren't many big laughs, but a teenage dance sequence (with Stewart paying boys five dollars each to dance with his daughter) is played very well, and a bit of slapstick near the end (involving Stewart locked in a bathroom with a tippling nude woman) is silly but lively. O'Hara was getting to be rather ubiquitous during this era, always playing hot-tempered wifeys; here she's softer and more subdued, and this appears to have an affect on Stewart, reigning-in his tics and mannerisms. The kids are tolerable, but the grown-ups are the reason to watch. ** from ****

Stewart takes his family to the beach house; complications and hilarity ensue. This is a mildly amusing family comedy that plays like a sitcom. Stewart makes the most of his role while O'Hara is lovely as his understanding wife. Pop singer and teen heartthrob Fabian, inexplicably sporting facial whiskers, woos one of Stewart's daughters. In 1962, the year this film was released, Stewart starred in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and McGiver, who plays an unwelcome guest at the beach house here, appeared in "The Manchurian Candidate," arguably the two best films of the year. Unfortunately, none of the magic from those two films rubs off on this lame comedy.