Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 09/18/2001
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: Republic Pictures
Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds,
Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and unshaven beach bum in
Father Goose. During World War II, Walter keeps busy relaying radio reports of Japanese air activity. But he's no hero, and in fact volunteered for this mission only because he's been promised a shipment of liquor by Australian naval officer Frank Houghton (
Trevor Howard). Making matters worse for the misanthropic Eckland is the arrival of French schoolmistress Catherine Freneau (
Leslie Caron) and her seven little-girl charges, whose plane has crashed nearby. The animosity between Walter and Catherine erupts into a slapping contest, with Walter dishing it out as well as taking it. Only when Catherine is bitten by a deadly snake does Walter express his affections for her.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Wartime Comedy Adventure.
Cary Grant scratches his screen image when he stars in this World War II comedy based on the book by S.H. Barnett. Grant plays an uncouth, alcoholic beachcomber, who is drafted by the Allies to serve as a lookout on a South Pacific island until Leslie Caron as a beautiful French schoolmarm shows up with her all-girl students, and he has to give them refuge from the Imperial Japanese Navy. Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay Adaptation. Also starring Trevor Howard, Jack Good, Sharyl Locke, Pip Sparke, Verina Greenlaw, Jennifer and Stephanie Berrington, Laurette and Nicole Felsette, and Don Porter.
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