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Directed by | Ralph Nelson |
Written by | Peter Stone Frank Tarloff |
Based on | A Place of Dragons short story by S. H. Barnett |
Produced by | Robert Arthur |
Starring | Cary Grant Leslie Caron |
Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
Music by | Cy Coleman |
Production company | Granox Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $12.5 million[1] |
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 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. It introduced the song "Pass Me By" by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, later recorded by Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and others.