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Daddy-O

Daddy-O is a 1958 B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
starring Dick Contino

Dick Contino

Dick Contino is an United States accordionist and singer.Contino studied accordion primarily with San Francisco-based Angelo Cognazzo, and occasionally with Los Angeles-based Guido Deiro....
. It was directed by Lou Place and written by David Moessinger. The film was later featured film on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000

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hot street-racer Phil Sandifer (Contino) is working as a truck driver, when he is harassed by a sports car driving on the highway. He later meets up with the driver, Jana (Giles), in a local club.

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Daddy-O is a 1958 B-movie

B-movie

Dick Contino

Cast

Phil Sandifer/Daddy-O - Dick Contino
Jana Ryan - Sandra Giles
Sidney Chillas - Bruno VeSota
Bruce Green - Jack McClure

Plot

Hotshot street-racer Phil Sandifer (Contino) is working as a truck driver, when he is harassed by a sports car driving on the highway. He later meets up with the driver, Jana (Giles), in a local club. Jana challenges Phil to a race; Jana cheats, and Phil loses. At the same time, his best friend Sonny is run off the road and killed by an unidentified assailant (VeSota).

Later at the club, Phil is arrested in connection with Sonny's murder; he is let off on probation, but is stripped of his drivers license. Phil quickly launches into an investigation into the murder, his first suspect being Jana. She denies any involvement, and joins Phil in his investigation. He follows the trail of clues to nightclub owner Chillas (Sonny's assailant), and Chillas's lackey Bruce, who runs the gym Sonny used to frequent. Chillas hires Phil as a singer under the alias of "Daddy-O".

Not long after being hired, Phil is beaten up by a couple of drug dealers who have mistaken him for Pete Plum, a pseudonym used by Sonny. Phil draws the conclusion that Sonny had been moving money around for Chillas, and that he had stolen some of the money and was killed as a result. Phil confronts Chillas with the information, and they confront one another in a liquor cellar. Phil manages to knock Chillas out, and soon the police arrive and arrest him and Bruce. The movie ends just as Phil is asked to sing.

Trivia

The film's score is notable, as it is the first soundtrack composed by John Williams
John Williams

John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
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In the 1994 hit film Pulp Fiction
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, a poster for Daddy-O is visible during scenes taking place in the 1950s nostalgia
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restaurant "Jack Rabbit Slim's
Jack Rabbit Slim's

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In 1978 American experimental rock
Experimental rock

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band Pere Ubu
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recorded a song called "Blow Daddy-O" which appeared on their Dub Housing
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In 1994 author James Ellroy
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wrote Hollywood Nocturnes
Hollywood Nocturnes

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, a collection of short stories, one of which was titled Dick Contino's Blues, a fictional take on the making of the film and surrounding back story starring Dick Contino
Dick Contino

Dick Contino is an United States accordionist and singer.Contino studied accordion primarily with San Francisco-based Angelo Cognazzo, and occasionally with Los Angeles-based Guido Deiro....
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