Main Cast: Jackie Gleason, Maureen O'Hara, Shelley Winters, Rosemary Forsyth, Rick Lenz
Release Year: 1970
Country: US
Run Time: 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled, estranged son, a philosophy professor. The chance at reconciliation comes when the son learns that his father, whom he hasn't seen in years is fighting a strange nameless movie disease in a French hospital. The young man's wife is not pleased. While aboard the jet, the son reflects upon his upbringing and the fights that would erupt between his mother, a fundamentalist Christian, and his father, an atheist. He remembers how his father turned to a free-spirited artist for comfort. Just before she left him, the artist gave the father a lovely poem. Later after his son became a teacher, the father decides to enter to piece in a poetry contest and wins $10,0000, which he plans to donate to his son's department. Unfortunately someone discovers that the artist's "original" poem is anything but and the father is publicly humiliated while his son is passed for promotion. Seeing how unhappy his son has become, the father decides to go to a church and pray for his son to get promoted. It works, but unfortunately a man had to die for the son to get it leaving the father to be wracked with guilt. Fortunately with the son's arrival comes the father's salvation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Maurice Marsac - The Bishop; Fritzi Burr - Mrs. Gromulka; James McCallion - Pete McGurk; Don Beddoe - Dean Bagley; Templeton Fox - Mrs. Wellington; Alex Gerry - Walter Wetzel; Marcia Knight - Rachel; Frank Logan - Frank, the Bartender; J. Edward McKinley - Hugo Wellington; Jack Nagle - Hugo Wellington; Clinton Robinson - Tom Waltz, age 11; Don Sebastian - Art Salerno; Judy Wallace - Mrs. Bagley; Robertson White - Old Geezer
Credit
Walter M. Simonds - Art Director, Moss Mabry - Costume Designer, Ted Adams Swanson - First Assistant Director, Michael Gordon - Director, Ronald Sinclair - Editor, Randy Sparks - Composer (Music Score), Jim Helms - Composer (Music Score), Tim Helms - Musical Direction/Supervision, Randy Sparks - Songwriter, Everett Freeman - Songwriter, Guy del Russo - Makeup, Allan Snyder - Makeup, Russell Metty - Cinematographer, Robert Enders - Producer, Everett Freeman - Producer, Randy Sparks - Singer, Ned Parsons - Set Designer, Karl Tunberg - Screenwriter, Everett Freeman - Screenwriter, Peter DeVries - Book Author
