Your dad bet your wedding ring on a horse. Still want that church ceremony?
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Acting
Barry Fitzgerald's lovable disaster of a father.
Direction
Farrow keeps the gambling obsession visually snappy.
Director
John Farrow
Barry Fitzgerald
Martin L. Donovan
Diana Lynn
Connie Donovan
Sonny Tufts
Kevin O'Connor
Dick Foran
Dale Whipple
Frank McHugh
Carey
Allen Jenkins
Nick
John Litel
Tom Clancy
Arthur Shields
Timothy Mike Donovan
Frank Faylen
Boss
James Burke
Harry Weston
George Cleveland
Gilligan
Ida Moore
Angela Orange
Rhys Williams
Priest
Stanley Andrews
Detective
Hobart Cavanaugh
Higgins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barry Fitzgerald was Oscar-nominated for Going My Way (1944) and remains the only actor ever nominated for both Actor and Supporting Actor for the same performance—a rule change followed.
The 'gambling Irish father' trope peaked here but haunted Hollywood for decades; this film accidentally preserved mid-century working-class Bronx aesthetics rarely documented.
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