Father Goose [videorecording] / screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff ; produced by Robert Arthur ; directed by Ralph Nelson.
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FilmPublisher number: OF647 | Olive FilmsPublication details: [United States] : Olive Films, [2013]Description: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard.Summary: A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Based on a story by S. H. Barnett.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Title from container.
Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard.
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation.