I loved this movie when I was eight, and a re-viewing of the 172-minute roadshow version on DVD reveals it to be a pleasant, tuneful, middle-of-the-road Disney effort that showed up at an unfortunate moment (when too many big musicals were clogging the market). Based on a hit Broadway play from ten years earlier, it's a leisurely--maybe a little too leisurely--look at the Biddles of Philadelphia during the runup to America's entry into the First World War, and the rather overlong romance of Cordelia Drexel Biddle and Angier Duke. Since they're played by a young Lesley Anne Warren and John Davidson, they're at least nice to look at and listen to, and there are some other standouts in the cast as well. As bickering representatives of both families, Gladys Cooper and Geraldine Page share a duet, "There Are Those," with lyrics worthy of Cole Porter--"posing cozy on their rosy status quos." Tommy Steele has a couple of energetic numbers and isn't as relentlessly hyper as he is in "Half a Sixpence" or "Finian's Rainbow," and Greer Garson, in the uninteresting mom's role, is warm and elegant. It's a sumptuous production, costing $10 million in 1967 dollars, and the costumes, sets, and cinematography are knock-your-eye-out. (The "Detroit" montage sequence is particularly luscious.) The Sherman Brothers are working at the same high level they brought to "Mary Poppins," and a couple of numbers, "It Won't Be Long Till Christmas" and MacMurray's "What's Wrong With That?" reprise, are really pretty deep and touching about family relationships and letting go of the kids, not something you'd expect from a big Disney musical. MacMurray's character is more than a little annoying and one-note, and AJ Carothers' screenplay is trite, and there's no dramaturgical reason this thing has to run on for nearly three hours. Nevertheless, to me it's comfort food, a lavish relic from the last gasp of Hollywood's studio system, and far less of a misfire than some other enormous '60s musicals that helped kill off the genre for decades.