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Father Goose (1965)
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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...
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There just isn't much that can be better on a dreary day than to sit down and enjoy Cary Grant. Add to that Leslie Caron, and you have a formula for a comedy that will entertain the most curmudgeonly person.
This war comedy won one Oscar and was nominated for two more. It was, without a doubt, the best comedy of the year....
(complete Father Goose review by Movie Addict)
The beginning of this film gives one a very different impression of what it will become than what actually happens. It starts off with Cary Grant as a curmudgeonly drunk beachcomber who gets suckered into helping spot Japanese planes for the Austalian army during WWII.
However as the film progresses, he saves a group of...
(complete Father Goose review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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