The Parent Trap 1961 123movies

Watch: The Parent Trap 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them..
Plot: Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents’ divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 22,066
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 297 Popularity: 16.285 | TMDB

Reviews:

Hayley Mills is pretty skilful in this spirited effort from David Swift. She plays posh sister “Sharon” and not so posh sibling “Susan” who meet at one of those summer camps that parents offload their unwanted children to during the long holidays. Needless to say, they cannot stand one another and after causing havoc for just about everyone else, are forced into isolation. It is during this confinement that things start to thaw between them and they realise they are twins – separated at birth when their parents divorced. They concoct a cunning wheeze – the wrong sister will go home to the wrong parent. “Sharon” to her father “Mitch” (Brian Keith) whilst “Susan” will go to her prim and proper mother “Maggie” (Maureen O’Hara). Their plan is to manipulate their parents into falling in love again and happy families will ensue. “Sharon” faces the bigger challenge when she discovers that his dad’s friend “Vicky” (Joanna Barnes) has designs on her father, so the girls have to fetch their mother from Boston to California if their cunning plan is to succeed! The premiss is far-fetched, but Mills juggles her two roles well; the dialogue at the start is entertaining and the mischief the girls get up to does raise a smile. Sadly, though, the adults drag it all down – especially a really out of sorts O’Hara, who just didn’t seem at all comfortable in her role. Keith, to be fair, was never the most versatile of actors – and here he pulls it off ok, but as the grown up melodrama starts to subsume the plot, I found myself just a bit weary as it really did start to plod towards the two hour mark.

Good watch, probably won’t watch again, but can recommend if you’ve seen any other Parent Trap and not this one.

This holds up surprisingly well: Hayley Mills did an excellent job playing both of the girls. I questioned it once, but I honestly thought it was two different people during the movie.

That might explain why so much of the movie looked like green screen even though they established it was a real scene by interacting with it. It is also surprising how much 1961 green screen looks like modern 2020 “true motion” with a almost fake looking background.

Yes, it is quite a gimmick to do a “twins switch places”, though that’s partly because of this movie. It would be one thing if there were just a lot of twin actors looking to make it in the business, but today’s climate would claim movies like this were stealing jobs from twins.

Though the movie is incredibly dated, it’s actually interesting to see that 1950’s motif where it was normal to have household staff still. The adults were a bit of a bore, it was the girl(s) fighting or getting along to antagonize the adults that really makes the movie, and that might be the big problem of it all. You have a young teen carrying the movie by doing double work, and the rest of the movie just doesn’t feel loved. Sadly it shows the ethics of 1960’s Disney.

The movie is fun though, and while I doubt anyone is going to watch it over and over again, it is definitely worth a watch, if for nothing else than seeing a birth of a trope.

A Favorite During My Tween Years
I first saw this movie on Sunday night TV Wonderful World of Disney in 1979 and was hooked. I bought the book at the school book fair and reread it a dozen times.

My older sister had seen Parent Trap in the theater and knew all of the parts that 1970s TV had edited out.

In the 1980s I finally got to see the whole film uncut on the Disney cable channel and finally got to figure out “the little dolls signing the parent trap song” my sister spoke of (there was 15 minutes I’d never get back)….

Dorky animated cupids aside, as a kid I loved the movie’s cross country saga. The camp cabin sabotage, the twins joining forces to prank dad’s girlfriend.

Although most kids will still enjoy the original movie’s favorite kid moments of the punchbowl splashing into a chaperon, the timeless cake falling on Miss Inch’s face, and Vicky’s hissy fit, the movie’s long pace might bore todays kids.

Although some purists don’t like the new remake of Parent Trap, I thought the remake kept the essence of the original story and updated it to match todays global travel, destigmatization of divorce, etc.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Family, Romance
Director David Swift
Writer Erich Kästner, David Swift
Actors Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.75 : 1
Camera Bell & Howell 2709
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (as Technicolor®)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm