Father Goose
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Director: Ralph Nelson
Writer: Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
Producer: Robert Arthur
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 coastwatcher character played by Grant. Based on a story A Place of Dragons by Sanford Barnett, the film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing; Academy Award for Best Sound.
- The film was based on a short story by S Barnett called A Place of Dragons.
- Producer Hal Chester hired Frank Tarloff, with whom he had worked on School for Scoundrels, to write the screenplay.
- Tarloff turned the project down at first calling it "a poor man's African Queen", but changed his mind.
Filming Locations
- Father Goose was filmed on location in Jamaica.
Previous Showings
3 Runs • 2 Festivals
5,530 tickets sold
All runs on record (3):
- January 27 - 30, 1996 · 1,218 ticketsw/ Daddy Long Legs
- August 29 - September 3, 2002 · 3,632 ticketssummer02w/ Charade
- August 17 - 18, 2023 · 680 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ Indiscreet