Father Goose From:Cary Grant , Leslie Caron , Trevor Howard , Jack Good , Sharyl Locke , Ralph Nelson , Republic Pictures ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780782011203
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 0782011209
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-09-18
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1964-12-10
Product Description:
Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and invade Eckland's raunchy isolation. Directed by 1960s hit-maker Ralph Nelson (The Lilies of the Field, Charly), Father Goose is a glossy comedy that also does justice to its more suspenseful scenes (a deadly snakebite suffered by Caron's character is especially memorable) and leaves plenty of room for Grant to indulge in some entertaining if atypical screen behavior. All in all, this is a minor treat in the actor's magnificent filmography. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
 Great gift, 2008-12-28
I got this for my father for Christmas---the wrapping paper was barely off of it before it was in the DVD player! A great film showing a very different Cary Grant.
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