Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell Reviews

Webb plays an admirable lecturer who is on tour when he comes across an old people's home whose inhabitants act as if they were already dead. Believing that old age is more a mental than a physical state, he gets admitted to the old age home, pretending to be a man in his 70s. His youthful spirit begins to spread to the other guests, so that when his true age is discovered, everyone is so active, no one cares about being taken in. Webb also manages to spark some life into a romance between the minister of the home, Marlowe, and his fiancee, Dru, by making Marlowe jealous. Direction keeps a well-paced flow going, handling the changes in the elderly characters smoothly. Webb, though not the center of all the comedy as in most of the Belvedere films, gives a charming performance without becoming overly righteous.