22 Movies You’ll Regret Not Watching
20. Father Goose
Grant’s character, a meandering sailor doing his best to avoid the war, is enlisted by the British Navy to work as a plane spotter on a remote island. The only thing he has for company are various bottles of whiskey.
His isolation, however, is interrupted when he accidently stumbles upon a French teacher and her students (the children of diplomats) and must live with them on his little island until the navy can pick them up.
Life with the prim and proper teacher, played by Caron, is a hardship for Cary’s character. She doesn’t allow him to drink or swear in front of the impressionable young girls. He finds this to be a tough job. The two continually get under one another’s skin; however, they ultimately find that opposites may indeed, attract.
The hilarity comes to a climax when the teacher is “bitten” by a snake that is assumed to be poisonous. She takes the only medicine on the island–whiskey–and gets tipsy. While waiting for her to succumb to the poison, the two learn an awful lot about each other. This film is a comedy classic that should not be missed.
