Ahh, the passions and trials of forty year old teenagers! Welcome to the fifties, home of some of the most unintentionally hilarious films of all times.
Here we have Phil-a pushing forties truck driver with pecs bigger than his girlfriend's breasts. Phil likes to hike up his pants to his chest a la Ed Grimley, leading to a song by Joel Robinson that is unutterably hysterical. Phil's supposed to still be a teenager, but than so are all of the aging characters in this film except for the fat guy and his manicurist. He's a drag racer with a taste for speed(the drug, I presume).
He'a almost run off the road by a blonde bombshell in a VERY tight blouse. he later races her, losing very spectacularly. He also loses his license, which is just as well. If this guy was a stunt driver, it was in a circus clown car, obviously.
Phil becomes involved in the death of his best friend, a thin gloomy kid who's car is run off the road the same night as Phil's race with the Peroxide Queen. Phil decides to get like Kojac, man, and investigate Sonny's death.
Re-enter the bleached blonde. The two of them set off to poke around the locker room of a gym-why? Did they enjoy the smell of gym socks and jock straps? In the process, we are introduced to the two funniest characters in the film-the effete fat man Chilas, and his goofy sidekick Bruce(a.k.a Squint Boy). They're on the look out for some drugs that Sonny stole from them and hid in his locker. The commentary between these two is just hilarious. The scene is made even funnier by the fact that pomade man and blondie are crouched in one of the showers nearby, hoping that the smell of sweat will overwhelm the smell of bleach.
Chilas hires Phil to be a singer in his new club. I don't know why, since this guy has a karaoke level of singing talent. Maybe he thinks that the aging teenagers in the audience will be hypnotized by how high Phil's pants are pulled up and be unable to look away. Or perhaps that they'll be amused by the corny lyrics of the songs he sings. I think my favorite is that one about how he won't do anything with his (girlfriend?) in public, but.."Just wait 'til I get you home, baby".
Phil discovers that the fat man had Sonny running dope for him. He and his platinum headed baby doll fool the bad guys(not that this is exactly hard)with some puerile ruses, and the cops sweep in in the end(they answered Phil's special police hot line)and scoop up blind as a bat Bruce and the oily Mr. Chilas.
Perhaps this was the first sound track ever done by the great John Williams. It certainly isn't up to his later standards. But it started a trend in which his music is the saving grace of some fairly mediocre films. Daddy-O isn't the worst film by far that I've ever seen on MST3K, but it is cheesy enough to inspire a laugh or two.
Here we have Phil-a pushing forties truck driver with pecs bigger than his girlfriend's breasts. Phil likes to hike up his pants to his chest a la Ed Grimley, leading to a song by Joel Robinson that is unutterably hysterical. Phil's supposed to still be a teenager, but than so are all of the aging characters in this film except for the fat guy and his manicurist. He's a drag racer with a taste for speed(the drug, I presume).
He'a almost run off the road by a blonde bombshell in a VERY tight blouse. he later races her, losing very spectacularly. He also loses his license, which is just as well. If this guy was a stunt driver, it was in a circus clown car, obviously.
Phil becomes involved in the death of his best friend, a thin gloomy kid who's car is run off the road the same night as Phil's race with the Peroxide Queen. Phil decides to get like Kojac, man, and investigate Sonny's death.
Re-enter the bleached blonde. The two of them set off to poke around the locker room of a gym-why? Did they enjoy the smell of gym socks and jock straps? In the process, we are introduced to the two funniest characters in the film-the effete fat man Chilas, and his goofy sidekick Bruce(a.k.a Squint Boy). They're on the look out for some drugs that Sonny stole from them and hid in his locker. The commentary between these two is just hilarious. The scene is made even funnier by the fact that pomade man and blondie are crouched in one of the showers nearby, hoping that the smell of sweat will overwhelm the smell of bleach.
Chilas hires Phil to be a singer in his new club. I don't know why, since this guy has a karaoke level of singing talent. Maybe he thinks that the aging teenagers in the audience will be hypnotized by how high Phil's pants are pulled up and be unable to look away. Or perhaps that they'll be amused by the corny lyrics of the songs he sings. I think my favorite is that one about how he won't do anything with his (girlfriend?) in public, but.."Just wait 'til I get you home, baby".
Phil discovers that the fat man had Sonny running dope for him. He and his platinum headed baby doll fool the bad guys(not that this is exactly hard)with some puerile ruses, and the cops sweep in in the end(they answered Phil's special police hot line)and scoop up blind as a bat Bruce and the oily Mr. Chilas.
Perhaps this was the first sound track ever done by the great John Williams. It certainly isn't up to his later standards. But it started a trend in which his music is the saving grace of some fairly mediocre films. Daddy-O isn't the worst film by far that I've ever seen on MST3K, but it is cheesy enough to inspire a laugh or two.