A fifty-something housewife (Maureen O’Sullivan) surprises the family by announcing she’s pregnant! Husband Harry (Paul Ford) can’t see himself being a dad again and their daughter (Connie Stevens) gets jealous and tries with her husband to get pregnant too. Oh, the hi-jinx!
Never Too Late was shot primarily in Concord, with the historic town standing in for the fictional “Calvertown,” which is apparently set in Western Mass., as the only mass transit to Boston is via Greyhound. A subplot that could be considered foreshadowing (and I’m stretching) centers around the family’s lumber company which is bidding for the contract to build the town’s new football stadium. Of course in the real world, the Patriots did build a stadium in a small town outside of Boston a few years later. In an eerie coincidence, Patriots’ great Gino Cappelletti appears in an uncredited cameo as a worker in the lumberyard.
Beautiful, historic Concord…er…Calvertown.Just after finding out she is pregnant, Maureen O’Sullivan’s character heads downtown to do some shopping. She is shown heading one direction down Main Street, then returning up the other side of the street. However, a close look shows that O’Sullivan was only filmed walking one direction, and the negatives were flipped to make it appear her return trip was on the opposite side of the street.IMDB suggests that Patriots’ all-time great Gino Cappelletti appeared, uncredited, as a lumber yard worker. If that is true, the fellow in the back of the truck has to be him, as no other lumber workers in the film bear this strong of a resemblance.Edith boards a bus and heads for Boston after deciding that the baby to be is tearing the rest of the family apart. Harry chases her bus through the countryside. I haven’t been able to pinpoint where this was filmed.Looking west along the Charles River from Memorial Drive in Cambridge.Heading east toward Boston from the same vantage point.Harry tracks down Edith at Boston’s South Station. This lobby is also the setting for a scene in the 1972 film Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues.Harry and Edith end up at the historic Statler Hotel on Boston’s Park Plaza.
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