Lord Love a Duck

Lord Love a Duck

Infobox Film
name = Lord Love a Duck


image_size =
caption = theatrical poster
director = George Axelrod
producer =
writer = Al Hine
George Axelrod
narrator =
starring = Roddy McDowall
Tuesday Weld
Lola Albright
Martin West
Ruth Gordon
Harvey Korman
music = Neal Hefti
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =
released = 1966
runtime =
country = USA
language = English
budget =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0060636

"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.

Plot

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 girl's 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. Barbara decides she wants Bob for her husband, which Alan helps make possible 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. But Bob refuses to allow his wife to have a Hollywood screen test, so Barbara Ann orders Alan to kill him. Bob proves almost indestructible, but by graduation time Alan has him in a wheelchair. At the graduation ceremony Alan pursues a wheelchair bound Bob with a bulldozer, 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.


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