Daddy-O (1958)

Director:

Lou Place

Guionista:

David Moessinger (original screenplay)

Release Date:

marzo 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Frase comercial:

Alive!! With the Beat and the Heat of Today's Rock-N-Roll Generation!

Plot:

Phil, a part-time truck driver and singer who wears his pants far too high, meets a feisty platinum...

Plot Keywords:

Accordion Player | Police Chase | Low Life | Gang Leader | Fantasy Land

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"Want some?"

Cast

Dick Contino	...	Daddy-O a.k.a. Phil Sandifer a.k.a. Pete Plum
Sandra Giles	...	Jana Ryan
Bruno VeSota	...	Sidney Chillas
Gloria Victor	...	Marcia Hayes
Jack McClure	...	Bruce Green
Ron McNeil	...	Duke
Sonia Torgeson	...	Peg Lawrence
Kelly Gordon	...	Ken
Hank Mann	...	Barney
Joseph Donte	...	Frank Wooster
Joseph Martin	...	Kerm
Robert Banas	...	Sonny DiMarco
Gabe Delutri
Ruth Scott
William Riggs

También conocida como:

Downbeat (UK)
Out on Probation

Duración:

74 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

USA:Approved | USA:Passed

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Imperial Productions

Trivialidades:

This film marks composer John Williams's first feature film score.

Goofs:

Continuity: As 'Daddy-O' confronts Jana in the beginning after their run-in on the highway, the younger highway worker's tool handle switches between resting on his left shoulder to his right and then back again.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994)

"Want some?"

Oh, Lordie, is this a wonderful movie. The only JD movie that compares is High School Confidential. You'll watch it again and again, consumed with envy at Dick Contino's sheer studliness and convulsed in laughter at some of the worst continuity in modern history.

Hot rods! Well, a T-Bird and a TR-3. Hot sex! Well, more naked Bruno VeSota than is probably good for you to see. Steamy dialogue! Well, "Want some?" was pretty hot in 1959. Juvie crime! Well, Dick Contino was no more a teenager than he was a Soviet cosmonaut, but he WAS running dope for Big Bruno.

And it DOES feature Bruce, the gym rat. Watch this movie, ponder this movie, and remind yourself that someone, the actor, the director, the writer, SOMEONE had to invent the incredible bundle of character twitches that is Bruce.

Daddy-O Notes: Dick Contino is alive, well, still studly in his early seventies, and the living master of the show accordion. You can buy current Dick Contino CD's and promotional merchandise, you can see him live in person. According to one interview, Dick is famous for, and I quote, "humping" his accordion as he plays. Oh, that I should live so long. Does he still hike, hike, hike hike his pants up?

Jack McClure, who played Bruce, was also in "Friendly Persuasion." At one point the poor deluded fellow might actually have thought he had a career going.

When the movie came out, my little brother and I, absolutely forbidden to see this or any other immoral movies about juvies and their chicks, were enthralled by the ads that ran constantly on the radio. One featured a woman's voice shouting, "Daddy-O! Look out BEHIND you!" and a stock sound clip of a skidding car's squealing tires. When MST beat up on Daddy-O I taped it (naturally) and watched it over and over - kids, that line is NOT in their version. Is there a "long" version, a la Wicker Man? A director's cut?

Ghod, when it comes to sheer entertainment value, they just don't make 'em like this any more. All this movie lacks is beatniks, a polar bear on a tricycle, and a coupon for free beer.