The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Summary:
Based on a successful stage play, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker loses in this adaptation to film by becoming more serious than an all-out farce. The setting is the end of the 1800s and the intrepid Pennypacker (Clifton Webb) runs a sausage company with two thriving plants in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. He shuttles back and forth between the cities and with equal aplomb, betwee... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Clifton Webb - (Pa Pennypacker)
Dorothy McGuire - (Ma Pennypacker)
Charles Coburn - (Grampa)
Jill St. John - (Kate Pennypacker)
Ron Ely - (Wilbur Fielding)
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Review:
It's a shame that The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker is not a remarkable little film. In fact, it's rather a disappointing little film, given its premise: that a man in the 1890s has led two lives, simultaneously marrying one woman and raising a family in Harrisburg and marrying another woman and raising another family in Philadelphia. There's fodde... Continue >>
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