Main Cast: Nana Bryant, Grant Mitchell, John Litel, George Reeves, Jan Clayton
Release Year: 1940
Country: US
Run Time: 59 minutes
Plot
Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie Kerr Underwood. Grant Mitchell plays tyrannical paterfamilias Mr. Bower, who runs his home like he runs his carpet-sweeper factory: pinching pennies, turning off lights, and interfering in every aspect of his loved ones' private lives. What with trying to manage things at home and attempting to hoodwink the IRS at the factory, Bower is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The limit comes when he humiliates his daughter Connie (Jan Clayton) at the home of his prospective in-laws with his obnoxious behavior. But Bowers' essential decency and humanity finally surfaces when his wife (Dora Bryant) is forced to undergo emergency surgery. The nominal leading man is future Superman star George Reeves, though perhaps the role should have gone to John Ridgely, who makes a meal of his bit part as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Charles Novi - Art Director, Noel Smith - Director, Frank Magee - Editor, Perc Westmore - Makeup, Ted D. McCord - Cinematographer, William Jacobs - Producer, Everett A. Brown - Sound/Sound Designer, Robert Kent - Screenwriter, Sophie Kerr Underwood - Play Author, Anna Steese Richardson - Play Author
