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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 behaviour. All in all, this is a minor treat in the actor's magnificent filmography. --Tom Keogh
Bringing Up Baby
"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton
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Two helpings of Cary Grant,
By Jane Austin "Jane" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Father Goose / Bringing Up Baby [DVD] (DVD)
Item arrived quickly in good condition. I'd seen 'Bringing up Baby' several times on television ever since I was a child. Also saw the end of 'Mother Goose' once and wanted to see the whole thing. Both are typical light-hearted romantic comedies. Worth playing again. Both are the type of films you get out and watch again every so often.
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Cary Grant is the biz!,
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This review is from: Father Goose / Bringing Up Baby [DVD] (DVD)
One of my all time favourite films. Cary Grant was the best comedy actor - without even trying.
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Best of Grant,
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This review is from: Father Goose / Bringing Up Baby [DVD] (DVD)
Father Goose the best of the two. One of my favourite movies of his. Leslie Carrol although not using too many ballet skills in this movie plays her role fabulously. I love the lines & the story. Definately gotta see it!
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