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Daddy-O

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Daddy-O is a 1958 B-Movie exploitation film from American International Pictures, directed by Lou Place and starring Dick Contino and Sandra Giles.Phil Sandifer (Contino), a high-panted, smooth-crooning, truck-driving hepcat known by his friends as "Daddy-O", meets blond bombshell Jana Ryan (Giles) when she tries to run his truck off the road. Guy meets girl again at a nightclub, after which they have a drag race. Meanwhile, Daddy-O's best friend Sonny is run off the road by drug-dealing bad guys and dies in the crash. Though our hero is arrested and briefly accused of causing the accident himself, he is soon exonerated — but still gets his driver's license suspended.Wanting to find out who's actually responsible for Sonny's death, Daddy-O turns detective and goes undercover as a singer at the bad guys' nightclub, where he belts out "Rock Candy Baby" and moonlights by driving the drug smugglers' car. Jana, wanting to help investigate, also takes a job at the club as a cigarette girl, against our hero's wishes. Somehow or other, though they bicker constantly, the good guys manage to fall in love and solve the crime.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The music score was composed by some newbie named John Williams. Whatever happened to him, anyhow?Featured in a third-season Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
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 Affably Evil: Sidney Chillis, who manages to stay level-headed no matter the situation... until his own considerable neck is on the line, that is.
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 The Dragon: Bruce Green, the obnoxious gym manager with the extra-thick glasses he can't see without (though he can barely see with them). Becomes The Starscream when he tires of Chillis putting him down and decides to attempt a doublecross.
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 Belligerent Sexual Tension
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 The '50s
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 Big Bad: Chillis
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 Crash-Into Hello: When a crazy driver nearly causes a three-car pileup passing him on a hill, Phil forces the car off the road to confront the driver. Why, it's a pretty girl! (To his credit, Phil doesn't let this distract him. The construction crew are another story.)
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