A hard-up widow moves into a rambling old house in Maine, where she struggles to control her three quarrelsome children. She also has to deal with the visit of her snobbish cousin, who falls for a schoolteacher her teenage daughter has her heart set on. Disney musical comedy, starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Una Merkel and Michael J Pollard.

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up