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In the third of 20th Century-Fox's JONES FAMILY series, the family get a trailer and head off to Crystal Lake for a holiday.

It hadn't taken long for producer to set the pattern for series. Father Jed Prouty is pompous and loving, wife Spring Byington keeps things organized, eldest son Kenneth Howell has a date with Dixie Dunbar, hampered by his lack of money, daughter Shirley Dean is entranced by charming Tony Martin, and so forth and so forth. There is location shooting up by Mammoth Lake to make things look nice, and a chase sequence to round things off.

With James Tinling directing, it must have been a speedy and economical shoot. This must have pleased producer Max Golden, who came in from the financial office, and started producing with the first movie in the series. He would give up that role in the industry and become a production manager on some major projects. He died in 1976 at the age of 80.