"Couldn't help ya if I wanted to, fella. Gym policy.", 11 August 2015
Having been wrongfully accused of the death of his best friend, Phil Sandifer (Dick Contino) sets out to find the real killer. To do so, he goes undercover as a singer in a new club where he's offered a chance to make some extra cash running drugs for the club's owner. Can Phil find the killer before he gets into more trouble with the law?
Daddy-O really isn't all bad, but it's not all good either. I think the thing that intrigues me the most about the movie is Dick Contino as Phil. What a weird dude! In appearance, he looks like a cross between James Best and Tom Jones. For whatever reason, he wears his pants so high (complete with belt buckle on the side) that there's only about 8-10 inches between the top and his underarms. I've seen 90 year-old men who don't pull their pants up this high. And, I can't tell you how many times someone in the movie calls Phil "kid". It's hysterical. When Daddy-O was made, Contino was 28 years-old - and he looked it or more. I guess someone deiced that if they called him "kid" enough, maybe the audience would eventually buy into it as well.
Other than Contino, Daddy-O has a decent little plot, Bruno VeSota, generally bad acting, a Jayne Mansfield wannabe, a low budget, and some horrible 50s style bubble-gum pop. A 5/10 from me.
Daddy-O really isn't all bad, but it's not all good either. I think the thing that intrigues me the most about the movie is Dick Contino as Phil. What a weird dude! In appearance, he looks like a cross between James Best and Tom Jones. For whatever reason, he wears his pants so high (complete with belt buckle on the side) that there's only about 8-10 inches between the top and his underarms. I've seen 90 year-old men who don't pull their pants up this high. And, I can't tell you how many times someone in the movie calls Phil "kid". It's hysterical. When Daddy-O was made, Contino was 28 years-old - and he looked it or more. I guess someone deiced that if they called him "kid" enough, maybe the audience would eventually buy into it as well.
Other than Contino, Daddy-O has a decent little plot, Bruno VeSota, generally bad acting, a Jayne Mansfield wannabe, a low budget, and some horrible 50s style bubble-gum pop. A 5/10 from me.
5/10
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