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.