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Father Goose (film)
1964 film by Ralph Nelson
Father Goose is a 1964 American Technicolorromantic 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 coast watcher character played by Grant. Based on a story A Place of Dragons by Sanford Barnett,[2][3] the film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Corman's one casting misstep is 7-year-old Verina Greenlaw as Hop Toad's wife Esmeralda.
It introduced the song "Pass Me By" by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, later recorded by Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and others.
Plot
While the Royal Australian Navy evacuates Salamaua, Papua New Guinea, in February 1942[4] ahead of a Japanese invasion, Commander Frank Houghton coerces an old friend, American beachcomber Walter Eckland, into becoming a coast watcher for the Allies.
Houghton escorts Eckland to deserted Matalava Island to watch for Japanese airplanes. To ensure Eckland stays put