Father Goose (1964)

Father Goose (1964)

One of Cary Grant’s last roles (actually his second to last) has him playing a grizzled island dweller whose idyllic home just happens to be a key location for monitoring Japan’s military strength in the Pacific during World War II. So he’s convinced by Trevor Howard’s character a Commander in the British Navy to keep track of the Japanese presence (e.g. count airplanes he sees) in the region. However things get complicated when a school teacher (played by Leslie Caron) and her young & proper female students stranded on an island nearby come to live and share "his" island with him. Naturally Grant’s loner character will fall mutually in love with Caron’s even as "her" girls try to teach him manners and get him to stop drinking. An entertaining light comedy. Directed by Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field (1963)); S. H. Barnett’s story and Peter Stone’s & Frank Tarloff’s screenplay won the Oscar for Best Writing Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen. The film’s Editing and Sound were also nominated.

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