| Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | |
| Director: | Mark Robson |
| Producer: | Mark Robson |
| Screenplay: | Larry Cohen Lorenzo Semple, Jr. |
| Starring: | Carol White Paul Burke Scott Hylands |
| Music: | John Williams |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Laszlo |
| Editing: | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributor: | National General Pictures |
| Runtime: | 108 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $2.9 million (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1969 American thriller film directed by Mark Robson and starring Carol White, Paul Burke, and Scott Hylands. Its title comes from the lullaby "Bye, baby Bunting".
This is the first film directed by Robson after his 1967 box-office hit Valley of the Dolls.
Cathy Palmer (White), a young British woman, comes to San Francisco to live. There she meets Kenneth Daly (Hylands), a relationship develops and she becomes pregnant, but when Cathy sees another side of Kenneth's personality, she elects to break off their engagement and abort the pregnancy.
Sometime later, Cathy meets and marries Jack Byrnes (Burke), who has political ambitions. Kenneth, however, continues to be disturbed by the way Cathy ended their romance, and soon comes back into her life. After Cathy gives birth to Jack's baby, Kenneth demands that she kill the child as retribution for the one she aborted earlier.