Cheap Father Goose (DVD) (Ralph Nelson) Price

Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and invade Eckland's raunchy isolation. Directed by 1960s hit-maker Ralph Nelson (The Lilies of the Field, Charly), Father Goose is a glossy comedy that also does justice to its more suspenseful scenes (a deadly snakebite suffered by Caron's character is especially memorable) and leaves plenty of room for Grant to indulge in some entertaining if atypical screen behavior. All in all, this is a minor treat in the actor's magnificent filmography. --Tom Keogh

CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	Ralph Nelson
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	10 December, 1964
MANUFACTURER:	Republic Pictures
MPAA RATING:	NR (Not Rated)
FEATURES:	Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
TYPE:	Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Age Disparity Romance, Bright, Child Classic, Color, Comedy, Drama, English, Feature, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Humorous, Light, Madcap, Military Comedy, Movie, Opposites Attract, Quirky, Romantic Adventure
MEDIA:	DVD
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	017153100815