Father Was A Fullback

A Fun Family Film
This is a warm and amusing film that rates high as a film you can enjoy with the entire family. Mary Loos and Richard Sale had a hand in the screenplay and once again a young Natalie Wood shows how talented she was as a child star. The versatile Fred MacMurray and Maureen O'Hara have a warm domestic husband and wife feel and Betty Lynn is very good as their oldest daughter, who as neighbor Jim Backus explains: "Feels like Lana Turner on the inside, but looks like Connie Cooper on the outside."

College football coach George Cooper (MacMurray) has led State U to a perfect record. But all losses and no wins makes dad a bit cranky! Natalie Wood is just terrific as his youngest daughter Ellen, a very smart tomboy handfull with a vocabulary well beyond her years. She calls her dad "Coach," but his oldest barely calls him anything, as her self consciousness over her appearance and lack of interest from the male of the species has left her an emotional mess.

Her dad...

Very Pleasant , Light Football Comedy!!
Fred MacMurray stars as Football Coach dealing with the trials and tribulations of both football and family life also co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Jim Backus.It's a very pleasant,light football comedy that's well worth watching!!

Father was a Fullback/movie
We loved it and laughed all the way through it. I hope a real coach

doesn't have to go through all the antics that Fred MacMurray went

through. You have to like Fred MacMurray to really appreciate

this movie. I guess what made us laugh most were the teens. Our

daughter was the same way. I wasn't sure either of us would live

through those times.

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