Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969 film)

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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Daddy Gone A-Hunting poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed by Mark Robson
Screenplay by Larry Cohen
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
Produced byMark Robson
Starring Carol White
Paul Burke
Scott Hylands
Cinematography Ernest Laszlo
Edited by Dorothy Spencer
Music by John Williams
Distributed by National General Pictures
Release date
  • July 2, 1969 (1969-07-02)
Running time
108 minutes
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.9 million (US/Canada rentals) [1]

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1969 American thriller film directed by Mark Robson and starring Carol White, Paul Burke, and Scott Hylands. Its title comes from the lullaby "Bye, baby Bunting". A novelization of the film was released in the same year. [2] This is the first film directed by Robson after his 1967 box office hit Valley of the Dolls . [3]

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Plot

Cathy Palmer, a young British woman, moves to San Francisco, where she meets Kenneth Daly and begins a relationship with him. She becomes pregnant, but when she sees another side of Kenneth's personality, she decides to break off their engagement and abort the pregnancy.

Some time later, Cathy meets and marries Jack Byrnes, who has political ambitions. Kenneth, however, continues to be disturbed by the way Cathy ended their romance, and soon comes back into her life. After Cathy gives birth to Jack's baby, Kenneth demands that she kill the child as retribution for the one she aborted earlier.

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Critical reception

The film received praise for its climactic sequence atop the Mark Hopkins Hotel, but also earned criticism for its plot devices and dialog. [3] [4] Roger Ebert wrote Daddy's Gone A-Hunting "has a lot of things wrong with it, but it does function on the promised level. It absorbs you, it places the macabre firmly in the midst of the commonplace (like good Hitchcock), and in the end it really does scare you". [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Big Rental Films of 1969". Variety. January 7, 1970. p. 15.
  2. ↑ St. Clair, Mike (1969). Daddy's Gone A-Hunting. Bantam.
  3. 1 2 Canby, Vincent (July 17, 1969). "Mark Robson's 'Daddy's Gone A-Hunting':Carol White and Scott Hylands in Lead Roles Kidnap-Suspense Film Set in San Francisco". The New York Times . Retrieved May 31, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Ebert, Roger (August 7, 1969). "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved May 31, 2025.
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