i realize the movie have a fine cast and that it be adapt from a play by hart and kaufman and and that the situation city family move to ramshackle house in the country be pregnant with possibility . i do not find it too funny . william keighley pedestrian direction doesn not help much . there be long pause follow wisecrack and the edit wait for laugh that just aren not come . here an example of the humor . jack benny be shave in the bathroom of the new york apartment the family be be kick out of . franklin pangborn be the owner and take some potential renter on a tour of the place . they enter the bathroom and slowly rummage around in it while benny stand there gap and his cheek cover with shave cream . plenty of time for a laugh there . a woman open some drawer and make a remark about the chest be roomy . benny glance down at his undershirt . silence while the audience crack up . the chest business be so funny that it resurrect a minute later . this time keighley camera move in for a close up of benny indignant face . hold for laugh . maybe i be in a bad mood or hung over or something but it all fell flat for me the repetitive gag and no matter how weak to begin with and the pesky neighbor and the handyman who shuffle deliberately about and the seductive neighbor and the fall through the hole in the floor or down the deep well in the county . mr. blandings build his dream house be good do . even the money pit and the egg and i be more inventive . ann sheridan mention that they be on the old york road . the really be an old york road and a two day stagecoach trip between philadelphia and new york city . the road still carry it original name in some place .