Confidentially Connie Reviews

Writer Max Shulman's influence is evident in this zany comedy about a newly married couple too poor to afford meat. Johnson is a professor at a small Maine college who has had a falling out with his father, Calhern, a big Texas rancher, over his choice of profession and wants no help from home. When dad comes to visit and learns he is to be a grandfather, he takes the bull by the horns and cuts a deal with the local butcher to give the kids their beef at half price. When word leaks out, it starts a meat price war, and Calhern has to cover the losses. Calhern is wonderful as the flamboyant, scheming cattle baron who ends up providing yearly pay raises for all the college profs because he feels sorry for them and their families. Not for health food faddists.