The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker is a 1959 American DeLuxe Color comedy film starring Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire directed by Henry Levin in CinemaScope.

As he must leave for his new post in one week, Kate wants to marry immediately, rather than endure a conventional extended engagement.

Horace motors to Harrisburg, narrowly avoiding the Philadelphia sheriff who has come to issue him a summons for promoting a book about Darwinism that prominently depicts the police chief as a monkey.

As Emily questions Horace about his secret life, Wilbur and his father arrive to discuss the wedding.

Fielding, arguing that morality is a matter of geography and that he is doing mankind a great service by propagating the species.

Coming to her husband's defense, Emily tells the children that their stepfamily is motherless and reassures Kate there will be no public scandal as the other Mrs. Pennypacker died years ago.

Jane, Horace's spinster sister decides to move to Philadelphia to care for her motherless nieces and nephews.

As Horace packs his suitcases to leave, the children beg him to stay, and with Emily's permission, he unpacks.

Walter Reisch who worked on the script later recalled, "On the stage it was funny, but on the screen it didn't come off at all.

"[3] The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker was adapted into two Indian films: Grahasti (1963, Hindi) and Motor Sundaram Pillai (1966, Tamil).