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Weekend with Father (UniversaI-International) is put together with the simple precision of an equation in Algebra I. Van Heflin is a widower with two children (girls) and a dog. Patricia Neal is a widow with two children (boys) and a dog. Widower meets widow in Grand Central Terminal while seeing the children off to summer camps. Result: a swift courtship and a drive up to Maine to break the news of the engagement to the kids...
...dogs get along as well as their owners, but the children resist each other and their prospective stepparents. Heflin suffers pratfalls at the hands of Patricia's boys and an embarrassing visit from an old flame (Virginia Field). Patricia, goaded by jealousy and split loyalties, is wooed by the head counselor (Richard Denning). It appears that widower may lose widow, but the children, ever wise in grown-up ways, trick their parents into getting together again...
...these used parts is a trifling little number that Hollywood calls a family comedy. This one is just a fraction better than most such because of Actor Heflin's smooth performance and Actor Denning's amusingly obnoxious portrait of a hearty bore with big muscles and a zest for wheat germ and yogurt...
...Policeman Heflin, a tinhorn opportunist, wants her husband's money, too. He engineers a way to kill him in the line of duty by mistaking him for a prowler. Then he succeeds in convincing a court, the dead man's brother and even the remorseful widow that the murder was a tragic accident. She consents to marry him. But when Bridegroom Heflin puts together the brother's knowledge that the dead man was sterile and his bride's happy announcement that she expects a child, he quickly realizes that the sum is more than scandalous...
...their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves nothing more than a normal home life...