by the late forty the era of the screwball comedy be over and a film be move in a different direction and comedically and otherwise . with television loom on the horizon and hollywood would soon be in for a very rough time . where and one wonder and would movie have go have television not come along and or it arrival on the scene be delay by five or ten year . mr. blandings build his dream house offer one particular way comedy might have develop . ad man jim blandings and along with his wife and two daughter and be live in a nice but way too cramped new york city apartment and a one day he get the bright idea that it might be fun to realize his dream of build a house in the suburb . so he buy some property in connecticut and have one build to his precise specification . well and almost . have he know the trouble he be in for he might have change his mind . then again he might not have . you decide . on this frail premise a wonderful film result and full of conflict between the middle class dream of own one own home and the the oftentimes unpleasant reality of acquire one . nothing come easy in this life and a mr. blandings learn while but one needn not be miserable just because thing do not always go one way . there be and after all and the long run . but and blandings ask himself every few minute and how long be long . this movie be a delight . it be not and i suppose and a masterpiece in the capra mccarey tradition and but it be a worthy successor to their thirty picture and and may well have be a harbinger of thing to come have the arrival of television not change the cultural landscape so radically . there be real warmth in the picture and and a good deal of ( w. c. ) fieldsian hard edge reality obtrude periodically and but not so much a to leave a bad taste . the people in the film be all very smart and affluent and but decidedly of the professional upper middle not the idle rich upper class . lead player cary grant and myrna loy play mr. and mrs. blandings to perfection while while melvyn douglas be fine a their pragmatic lawyer friend and who often have to bring up unpleasant topic and such a how the real world work . there be and too and a wonderful sense of what for want of a good term one might call the romance of suburbia and which be in it infancy in the immediate postwar year and a one see the wood and stream that draw people to the country in the first place . these people be most definitely fish out of water in the then still largely rural connecticut . in a few short year thing would change and a the mad rush to suburbia would be in full gear and destroy forever the pastoral innocence so many have yearn for in the small town and which soon would be connect by highway and litter with bottle and can and their effluvium rival anything one would encounter in the city .