Father Goose

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Father Goose

1964,

1h 55m,

Comedy

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79%

14 Reviews

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5,000+ Ratings

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14 Reviews

86%

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5,000+ Ratings

On an island in the South Seas, Walter Eckland lives a quiet life. That changes when he's persuaded to serve as a lookout for the Allies, watching for enemy ships. Eckland, whose main interest is drinking, proves bad at his job and is sent to fetch a replacement from another island. Instead, he finds a stranded teacher, Catherine, and her pupils. After Eckland brings the group to his island, romantic sparks fly between the prim schoolmistress and the slovenly loner.

Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films

Jan 30, 2004

B

Grant cheerfully plays against a lifetime of typecasting in this modestly entertaining romantic comedy… sparks of more than one sort fly between [Grant] and [Caron].

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James Plath

Family Home Theater

Apr 3, 2016

A-

A fun lightweight adventure, one of the better Cary Grant films, and a darned good "starter" romantic comedy because of all the other distractions and a world that threatens to tear this couple apart before they can even come together.

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Aug 2, 2014

7/10

Watching Cary Grant shuffle about like an angry, disheveled bum is funny to a degree that it wouldn't be for virtually any other actor who could have conceivably fit the role.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Aug 5, 2009

B-

One of Cary Grant's last pictures (he retired 2 years later) is one of his most commercially popular vehicles, with an Oscar-winning script by Peter Stone and Leslie Caron (who's half his age) as love interest.

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Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS)

Feb 18, 2007

2/5

Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dec 30, 2006

C+

Though Cary Grant manages to get the most he can from the role, it's not enough to cover up the film's emptiness.

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Han M

Feb 14, 2018

Caron, Howard, & Grant play off each other quite well. If the only available man for a woman on a desert island - during a war - is twice her age... is she still too young?

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Anakin L

Mar 21, 2017

I enjoyed the movie a lot. It's a cute movie. Good story, very entertaining pace, and just a good lighthearted movie. But, it was a little too lighthearted for a war film.

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Han S

Feb 11, 2017

Cary Grant is a reclusive drifter manoeuvered into becoming a coast-watcher in WW2. He unexpectedly rescues a teacher and seven young girls and must live with them on his desert island. A little thin in places but the film's good nature and charming cast help make up for that. Cary Grant is enjoyable playing against type.

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Hermione S

Oct 16, 2007

Between a 6/10 and 7/10, though Cary Grant manages to get the most he can from the role, it's not quite enough to cover up the film's rather empty amusement.

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Ralph Nelson

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Cary Grant

Walter Christopher Eckland

Leslie Caron

Catherine Freneau

Trevor Howard

Commander Frank Houghton

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Synopsis

On an island in the South Seas, Walter Eckland lives a quiet life. That changes when he's persuaded to serve as a lookout for the Allies, watching for enemy ships. Eckland, whose main interest is drinking, proves bad at his job and is sent to fetch a replacement from another island. Instead, he finds a stranded teacher, Catherine, and her pupils. After Eckland brings the group to his island, romantic sparks fly between the prim schoolmistress and the slovenly loner.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Producer: Robert Arthur
Screenwriter: Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Granox Company
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 10, 1964, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 20, 2014
Runtime: 1h 55m

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