Taking a cue from "A Summer Place" to appeal to both adults and teens, this Disney comedy is a charming reminder of what was once known as family night out. There's two Hayley Mills for the price of one for the teens (fresh from "Pollyanna") and the still sexy Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith as their divorced parents for the adults. This family affair busted up years before thanks to the inability to come to terms with their differences, and the decision for each of the parents to get custody of one of the twin girls, now precocious, boy crazy teens.Unaware that they have a look alike, the very differently brought up young ladies meet at summer camp where it's hate at first sight. Not seeing the similarity in their voices, they don't question that until they are confined together after getting into a cat fight. The two plot to switch places, one ending up in stuffy Boston and the other in sunny California, plotting to get the parents together after a long separation in an effort to rekindle the spark. But with daddy Keith on the verge of marrying an obvious gold digger (a delightfully bitchy Joanna Barnes), they must connive quickly!Disney rarely did better outside their big musicals than they did here, including a fantastic cast of character actors who are all unique and very funny. There's Cathleen Nesbitt as O'Hara's imperious mother, Charles Ruggles as O'Hara's henpecked father, Una Merkel as Keith's plain spoken housekeeper, and Ruth McDeavitt and Nancy Kulp as summer camp moderators. Leo G. Carroll stifles an amusing chuckle watching all the craziness unfold as the minister planning on marrying Keith and Barnes. Having often quoted her ping pong ball monologue from "Auntie Mame", I adored Barnes here, but then again, there's absolutely nothing to dislike. Well, that is except the song that Mills sings as a duet in the reconciliation scene with the parents. It instantly dates the film, but the sequences where the twins take on the nasty Barnes in the middle of the woods makes up for it. This has been remade twice, but for me, nothing bests the original.

Cannot go wrong with the chance to see Hayley Mills play a role with Hayley Mills. Cute, sassy, identical twins raised in different social circles. Dad and Mom are played with charm and verve by Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. Grandpa is Charlie Ruggles. It's just all great fun and it works even after all these years. Made in 1961 .. WOAH !

I first heard of this movie when I was a very little kid and I grew up with a Disney Sing Along video that contained a song from it called "Let's Get Together", so when I was eight years old I was motivated to try out the full movie and my family and I rented the movie from our library. That was my first time watching it from start to finish, and ever since then I also rented it from my library again in 4th grade and on Netflix in 9th grade. From the moment I watched this comedy in 9th grade, I've always though to myself "Wow, what a great film this is!", and to this day I own the movie on DVD and there are many things I love about it. First off, I love the beautiful scenery of Camp Inch where the twins in the movie meet in the beginning, as well as Sharon McKendrick's beautiful mansion in Boston and Susan Evers' Spanish architecture house in Monterrey, California. What I thought of the acting was that Hayley Mills definitely aced playing the roles of the twins (whose names I mentioned earlier in my review), as well as the beautiful Hollywood actress Maureen O'Hara playing the role of Maggie McKendrick twenty years after her most acclaimed role, Angharad Morgan in the hit John Ford film "How Green Was My Valley". In my opinion, Mills played the role of the twins much better than Lindsay Lohan did in the new version of The Parent Trap. In addition to all the phenomenal filming and acting of this hit movie, I also love the music that the Sherman Brothers wrote like the pretty song "For Now For Always", and "Let's Get Together" (of course). If anyone is looking for a funny film to watch that combines phenomenal acting and engaging music, I recommend you check out this movie and definitely skip the remake of it with Lindsay Lohan.

Questionable Disney film with Hayley Mills playing 2 roles; twins whose existence was kept from the other due to an improbable and cold-hearted decision by their selfish, divorced parents played by a lovely Maureen O'Hara and a tubby Brian Keith who's notably lacking in warmth. Mills doesn't make the twins distinctive though the special effects are fine and unobtrusive. The big problem with the film is that the adults are childish and unappealing and Keith and O' Hara don't belong together and what brought them together in the first place remains a mystery. Pity Joanna Barnes who was so good in Auntie Mame (1958), she has a thankless role and has been prematurely aged by hairstyle, make-up and photography. The supporting cast made up of familiar faces is dull and David Swift's direction of this big screen sitcom is anything but swift.