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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · Film · 94 min
Directed by H. C. Potter
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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You're missing out. If nothing else, you have to watch North By Northwest, but there are so many great Cary Grant movies, it's hard to pin down a "must watch" list. Everything from Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House through That Touch of Mink and onto Charade or To Catch A Thief and dozens more in between. And my all-time favorite, Father Goose. And I've left out some of his best ones; those are just the ones that spring to mind that weren't necessarily mentioned in the article (there are plenty in there, too).
Seriously, do a search for best Cary Grant movies and go seek some out; even though nobody can agree on the order of said lists, everyone agrees which movies should be on there.
The earliest mention of this problem I can recall is in the 1948 movie Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blandings_Builds_His_Dream_House
Admittedly, that wasn't the extreme form. Rather, they had misread the train schedule, and available trains ran at very inconvenient times.