Father Goose

Pros: Funny, well acted, Academy Award winning screenplay
Cons: None

Father Goose ranks among my all-time favorite movies. Made in 1964, it’s a warm, slightly off-beat romantic comedy, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, and Jack Good.

The story is set in the South Pacific during World War...

Pros: It's got Cary Grant in it!
Cons: You might wear your tape out watching it time and time again.

This is one of Cary Grant's final roles, and one of his better ones. In what other film can you see Grant drink heavily, act surly and rude, be totally irresponsible and try his best to be left alone? Grant is at his comic best in this film, and it's a...

Pros: An inspired romantic comedy
Cons: A romantic comedy nevertheless

Perhaps I underestimate my readership. Perhaps most film lovers are better educated than I was a few years ago. Perhaps it is only my imagination that people don't make enough of an effort to see the movies of yesteryear. Perhaps I am mistaken in...

Pros: Grant gets more than he bargained for!
Cons: None

Score another one for Cary Grant. He is at his most charming in this movie. He is the Romantic Comedy king! He plays Walter Eckland, an Australian beachcomber who is doing his patriotic part during WW II by spying on planes passing over his island for...

Pros: CAry Grant as a charming beachcomber, inveterate drunk; Jamaican scenery, schoolgirls are natural actors
Cons: Some illogical parts; Leslie Caron can be annoying when righteous, shades of Hayley Mills

Cary Grant's role in this, his penultimate film, in his early 60's, is said to be closest to his true personality. He plays a drop-out college history professor, fed up with wearing ties and teaching copycat boys in similar ties, so off he went to ...

Pros: Great chemistry between Grant and Caron. Lots of laughs.
Cons: None.

I'm not normally one to enjoy older films (ones from the early 70's and earlier), but I definitely made an exception after my first viewing of "Father Goose". It's a delightful, amusing, and very light-hearted story, one that seems to get funnier each...

Pros: Family entertainment.
Cons: None.

Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) is the quintessential drop out- the man who can weave in and out of the world for what he needs- even when he’s living in the 1940s and World War Two is exploding all around him. “ If the world can’t keep its peace ...

Pros: excellent video quality, Cary Grant in an atypical role
Cons: A better choice to pair with Father Goose would have been Operation Petticoat

Now available on DVD is this classic pair of Cary Grant films. Let's take a look at them one at a time.
Father Goose- In this one, Cary is a drunken beach bum in the South Seas during World War II. When we see him for the first time, he is headed...

Pros: It rocks
Cons: None

My wife makes me watch old movies sometimes. Most of them are unbearable. Romantic mush. Boring old blabbering in loud costumes and hokey music. A pain worse than death. But not this time. Father Goose delivers. You know who Cary Grant is, ...

Pros: Very funny movie..great plot
Cons: it is a bit cheesy at times

Father goose which was made around the early 60s is a very good film for anyone who is into those light hearted classic movies. This movie is one of my favorites next to evil dead (I know that sounds weird...but its the truth). What makes this movie a...