Father Goose (1964)

Directed by

Ralph Nelson

Genre

war film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 199 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A disheveled loner is drafted as a coast watcher on a remote Pacific island during World War II. He ends up unwillingly sheltering a French schoolteacher and her students, which leads to bickering and eventual romance.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfully romanticbreezyaffectionatefunnywarmnostalgic

What happens

Father Goose is a 1964 American Technicolor romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title is a play on the children's fiction character of "Mother Goose," which is used as a code name assigned to the coast watcher character played by Grant. Based on a story A Place of Dragons by Sanford Barnett, the film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It introduced the song "Pass Me By" by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, later recorded by Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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