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Lord Love a Duck is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Axelrod released in USA on 21 february 1966 with Roddy McDowall

Lord Love a Duck (1966)

Lord Love a Duck
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Released in USA 21 february 1966
Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating62% 3.1461953.1461953.1461953.1461953.146195

Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 black comedy starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld. The film was a satire of popular culture at the time, its targets ranging from progressive education to Beach Party films. It is based on Al Hine's 1961 novel of the same name.

Synopsis

From his prison cell, Alan Musgrave dictates his experiences of the previous year, which he dedicated to fulfilling the unending wishes and ambitions of high school senior Barbara Ann Greene. The daughter of Marie, a cocktail waitress sinking unhappily into her forties, Barbara wants every kind of success and for everyone to love her. Signing a pact with Alan in wet cement, Barbara soon has the 12 cashmere sweaters needed to join an exclusive girls' club. She drops out of school to become the principal's new secretary and gets involved in church activities run by strait-laced but hyper-hormonal Bob Bernard. When Barbara Ann decides she wants Bob for her husband, Alan facilitates by keeping Bob's eccentric mother Stella, who disapproves of Barbara Ann, perpetually plastered. Then Barbara meets schlock producer T. Harrison Belmont, the King of Beach Party movies, and decides to become the biggest star that ever was. Bob refuses, however, to allow his wife to have a Hollywood screen test, so Barbara Ann decides she wants a divorce. Since Bob's mother frowns upon divorce, Alan takes matters into his own hands to kill Bob. Although Bob proves to be almost indestructible, by graduation time Alan has him in a wheelchair. At the graduation ceremony, Alan pursues Bob with a tractor, humorously killing him and everyone else on the speakers' platform. Barbara Ann goes on to Hollywood fame in her debut film "Bikini Widow", while Alan is sent to prison.

Actors

Roddy McDowall

(Alan Musgrave)
Tuesday Weld

(Barbara Ann Greene)
Lola Albright

(Marie Greene)
Ruth Gordon

(Stella Bernard)
Harvey Korman

(Weldon Emmett)
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