swing comedy have family from the suburb get dupe by a low rent travel agent into take a cut rate european vacation . james garner and debbie reynolds would seem to be an ideal screen match and but this leaden script never give their union a chance ( and both be saddle with deaden line like and stop fiddle with your necklace and act like a man . ) . garry marshall and crack comedy writer jerry belson adapt the screenplay from muriel resnick book the girl in the turquoise bikini and and veteran comedy director jerry paris helm the proceeding and but the result be bathetic while comic support from old pro paul lynde and marcel dalio and terry thomas and and vitto scotti doesn not help much . these be not the happy day and although there be fun bit by erin joanie cunningham moran and penny marshall . half from .