“Think of it as a train behind you. Forty feet of train.”
For
some odd reason when I was little I used to wonder what it would be like to
travel across the US in an RV. I remember thinking how cool it would be to live
in one of those for the summer going to all these cool places in the States and
sleeping in bunkbeds in the hallway of an RV. Now that I am older I still think
it would be pretty cool to travel cross country in an RV but it is not
something I would really ever want to do. I do not mind driving I have done
some pretty long distance car travel before but I have ADHD and I would be
miserable. If I had kept up my wondering and maybe even dream of living in an
RV for a while I would have been similar to Lucille Ball’s character in the
film The Long, Long Trailer.
Nicky
Collini (Desi Arnaz) and Tacy Bolton (Ball) are engaged to be married. They both
wanted to settle down in a house somewhere but Nicky’s job makes him travel.
Tacy does not want to be alone all the time during their first year of
marriage. She gets the idea in her head to buy a trailer so she can travel
around the country with him. Nicky is not too keen on the idea but once he sees
what it means to Tacy he decides to go with. Tacy finds and desperately wants
the biggest trailer that can be bought. With that find goes all of Nicky’s
saving out the window. Not only does he have to pay an exorbitant amount for
the trailer he has to pay for all the fees and a new car and the hitch on the
back of the car and so many other things.
Tacy
of course loves the trailer and loves the traveling. Nicky does not like it at
all because he is the one that has to do all the driving and maintenance of the
trailer.
Of
course tensions flare between the couple and they get into a major fight over something
silly because both of them are stubborn. But this being a romantic comedy Tacy
and Nicky forgive each other and stay together.
The Long, Long Trailer is the first time
I have ever really sat and watched Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in something. I
have seen episodes of I Love Lucy but
it was so long ago that I do not really remember what they were like as an on screen
couple. Ball and Arnaz were cute together. After watching this I can definitely say I do not think I would want the
responsibility of driving a trailer or an RV across the country! Way too much
work that needs to go into driving one and I have zero patience. The
Long, Long Trailer really did not hold my attention for too long. There
were several scenes that I felt dragged on longer than they should have. But I must
once again mention that I have ADHD and when a film fails to hold my attention
in some way I just kind of listen to the film and not really watch. What I did
manage to pay attention to in The Long,
Long Trailer was good. I recommend seeing the film only if you are a fan of
Lucille Ball.
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