Members of the family cling to Andrews while he's driving as if they are about to drive off a mountain top. Hilariously, she rides on the top of the seats in their car, her hair plastered back from the wind, and when it pulls off the road, she suddenly has a huge, thick bouffant hairdo! Already a rather illogical film (kids that Andrews meets on the road just happen to hang out at a motel he bought 50 miles away? People drive these expansive, remote roads as if everything is close together like a neighborhood!) is made all the more ludicrous because of the lack of restraint during the action scenes. Farmer is Bertoya's easy, but possessive, girlfriend. Kirkwood plays his slightly less nasty sidekick. Bertoya (a sort of very poor man's John Derek) has a lot of intensity as the primary rabble-rouser. Then she has the nerve to tell her daughter not to be too dramatic! Mock, as the daughter, does an okay job of conveying her burgeoning sexuality, but she sure has a lot of big hair and makeup for a 16 year-old (an age the actress clearly is NOT!) Bryon plays the marginally appealing son pretty well, not becoming too obnoxious as most cinematic children are. The slightest event causes her to affect a torturous expression and/or moan or scream. As lovely as she is, she overacts horribly many times in the film. It's a shame that someone this put-together (she's in better shape than the daughter!) is slogging through such a tacky film. Crain looks smashing in her snug white skirt and sleeveless top. This does make for a few unintentional chuckles along the way as he is outraged by the behavior of these kids. Andrews is forced to play a pretty dour and depressed character, one who is also very uptight and persnickety.
Then when they finally reach their destination, the trouble doesn't cease! Andrews is forced to choose between giving up what could be his last chance for financial security or endangering his family and himself by staying and taking on the hoodlums. Unfortunately, they manage to draw the attention of a trio of no-good, thrill-seeking teenagers who proceed to terrorize them during the last leg of their journey. So he, Crain and their two children pack up the car and start for a motel they've purchased, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Andrews, on his way home to celebrate Christmas, was nearly demolished in an auto accident and his brother devises a way for him to eke out a living despite the resultant back problems. Andrews and Crain, who were paired up in several films prior to this one (most memorably in 1945's "State Fair") play a married couple with two children who have to make a move out west. Reviewed by Poseidon-3 N/A "The lights, the horns, Jingle Bells.the whole thing."Īh, the woeful late career roles of formerly popular stars. Since Tom scolds them about their reckless behavior, they decide to make the Phillips'. But as they approach Mayville, they encounter a bunch of reckless hot rodders named Duke, Ernie and Gloria. Tom would be physically able to do the work required running a motel, and the dry heat is good for his back. The Phillips - Tom, his wife Peg, and their two children, teenager Tina and pre-teen Jamie - end up moving from their Boston home and buying a motel in Mayville in the California desert. Although Tom suffered no paralysis from his back injury, he did come out of the accident with a chronic back problem which results in him not being able to continue with his current work, and a mental block having anything to do with the accident, including Christmas music, driving in general and the sounds of screeching tires and breaking glass. While on a business trip just before Christmas, Tom Phillips gets into a car accident, which was caused by the reckless driving of the other car involved.
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