The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker is a 1959 DeLuxe Color film starring Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire directed by Henry Levin in CinemaScope. The film is based on the 1953 Broadway play of the same, which ran for 221 performances. Burgess Meredith starred as Horace Pennypacker and Martha Scott as 'Ma' Pennypacker. At the turn of the century, Horace Pennypacker, Jr. has two families: one wife and eight children in Harrisburg, PA, and nine children (by a deceased wife) in Philadelphia, PA. During the course of events, his ruse is undone and he struggles to find a way to maintain the status quo.