Ah, the good old days! Just finished watching this movie on TCM, and it was as funny as I remembered it from the mid-50's. When I was a little kid, my parents bought a much smaller travel trailer for family vacations around 1955. After towing it over 9600 foot Sonora Pass with our old 1950 Chevy Deluxe (85 HP six cylinder engine), my dad realized that he needed a more powerful car so he bought a new '56 Ford station wagon with a V-8. Still, we experienced almost every pitfall included in the movie. (My mom was never dumb enough to try to fix dinner in the trailer while it was moving.) What seemed to be a good investment at first turned out to be Hell on Wheels. My dad finally sold the trailer after two years and we were all glad to get back to tent camping or staying in motels.
The most amazing scene in the movie was the drive through Yosemite National Park, which was completely deserted, in the summertime! Dunno how they managed to chase everyone out of the park for that short sequence.
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edgein15
13 years ago
I'm actually surprised this movie didn't kill the trailer industry. Pretty much every nightmarish scenario you could think of happened in this film. It sure didn't make me want to run out and buy one.
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bron-tay
12 years ago
Haha, no kidding! It mainly showed that trailers were for imbecilic, stubborn females who spent their husbands' money like water. "Carrying everything around on our backs like a turt-tull" was the best description of their life in the whole film!
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