Rating: NR
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 09/18/2001
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: Republic Pictures

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, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Cary Grant - Walter Eckland
Leslie Caron - Catherine Freneau
Trevor Howard - Commodore Frank Houghton
Jack Good - Lt. Stebbins
Sharyl Locke - Jenny
Pip Sparke - Anne
Verina Greenlaw - Christine
Stephanie Berrington - Elizabeth
Jennifer Berrington - Harriet
Laurelle Felsette - Angelique
Nicole Felsette - Dominique

Production:
Ralph Nelson - Director
Robert Arthur - Producer
Cy Coleman - Composer
Ted Kent - Editor
Peter Stone Frank Tarloff - Screen Writer
George Milo John McCarthy - Set Designer
Alexander Golitzen - Art Director
Henry Bumstead - Art Director
Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer
Ray Aghayan - Costume Designer
Tom Shaw - First Assistant Director
Bud Westmore - Makeup
Joseph E. Gershenson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Ernest B. Wehmeyer - Production Manager
Caroline Leigh - Songwriter
Waldon O. Watson - Sound/Sound Designer
William Russell - Sound/Sound Designer
S.H. Barnett - Screen Story

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