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Father Goose (1965)
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Better Than Expected
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 daughters of consulate officials and their mistress (Leslie Caron) and becomes entangled in their lives and vice versa. Yet this is not a typical man alone with crazy females film, instead each learns a little from one another and they are able to survive the Japanese because of the bond they have formed with one another.
This film shows the essential need for a male presence in the raising of a girl, whether he be the 'acceptable' father figure, or just a good influence. It also shows that people are much more conplex than what they might initally seem to be, even in Hollywood movies. Grant and Caron have a great chemistry and it is a joy to see both of them out of their comfort zone.
This was Grant's second to last screen role and it is nice to see him break tradition and play an entirely new kind of man. Instead of the smartass quick wit, or the dashing hero, here he is the reluctant antihero who really doesn't change all that much in the end. It really proves his range once and for all and his standing as one of the best of all time.
I expected to hate this film, but by the end I was invested and interested. It may be improbable and imperfect, but it is a charmer.
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