Father Goose

United States

1964

118 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, French, Japanese

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, S. H. Barnett

CAST Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good, Sharyl Locke, Pip Sparke, Verina Greenlaw, Stephanie Berrington, Jennifer Berrington, Laurelle Felsette, Nicole Felsette, John Napier

PROD DES Henry Bumstead, Alexander Golitzen

Eckland is forced to volunteer as a lookout for Japanese forces, and is posted on a South Pacific island alone. While attempting to rescue another watcher on another island, he ends up bringing Catherine and seven little girls to his hut. They take over his home and attempt to improve his habits. —CaryGrant.net

Director

Ralph Nelson

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor.

Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He served in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor in World War II. Nelson directed the acclaimed episode A World Of His Own of The Twilight Zone and served as production manager for the bulk of the show’s run. He also directed both the television and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight.

He directed the 1968 movie Charly, for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award, as well as several racially provocative films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Academy Award-winning Lilies of the Field, …tick…tick…tick…, The Wilby Conspiracy, and Soldier Blue. For ‘Lillies’, actor Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award.

Additionally, he directed the Cary Grant comedy Father Goose, the offbeat Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, Once a Thief, and Rita Hayworth’s… read more

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor.

Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He served in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor in World War II. Nelson directed the acclaimed episode A World Of His Own of The Twilight Zone and served as production manager for the bulk of the show’s run. He also directed both the television and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight.

He directed the 1968 movie Charly, for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award, as well as several racially provocative films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Academy Award-winning Lilies of the Field, …tick…tick…tick…, The Wilby Conspiracy, and Soldier Blue. For ‘Lillies’, actor Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award.

Additionally, he directed the Cary Grant comedy Father Goose, the offbeat Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, Once a Thief, and Rita Hayworth’s last film, The Wrath of God. Nelson also both directed and briefly appeared in Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Nelson’s other credits include several episodes of TV’s Starsky & Hutch, the ‘70s camp horror classic Embryo, and A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. A television drama about mounting the live show of Requiem for a Heavyweight called The Man in the Funny Suit was made in 1960, with Nelson both writing and directing and Nelson, Serling, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Ed Wynn appearing as themselves.He returned to TV in the late 1970s with a string of TV movies, including a sequel to Lillies of the Field starring Billy Dee Williams.

Death

He died in Santa Monica, California, aged 71. He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web’s HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson. —Wikipedia

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