Lord Love a Duck

Director: George Axelrod George Axelrod

Overview

A satirical black comedy with McDowall successfully playing a high-school senior, even though he was in his late thirties at the time! The story concerns a brilliant but unbalanced young man, who makes it his business to get the girl he has designs on everything she wants, whatever the cost.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2020
UPC:	0738329247270
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roddy McDowall	Alan 'Mollymauk' Musgrave
Tuesday Weld	Barbara Ann Greene
Lola Albright	Marie Greene
Martin West	Bob Barnard
Ruth Gordon	Stella Barnard,Actor
Harvey Korman	Weldon Emmett
Sarah Marshall	Miss Schwartz
Lynn Carey	Sally Grace
Max Showalter	Howard Greene
Donald Murphy	Phil Neuhauser,Phil Neuhauser
Joseph Mell	Dr. Lippman
Dan Frazer	Used Car Salesman
Martine Bartlett	Inez
Jo Collins	Kitten
Hal Baylor	Jack
Laurie Mitchell	Jack's Wife
David Draper	Billy Gibbons
Donald Foster	Mr. Beverly
Judith Loomis	Mrs. Butch Neuhauser
Martin Gabel	Harry Belmont
Vicki London	Actor
Phyllis Davis	Actor

Technical Credits

George Axelrod	Producer,Director
Herman Townsley	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

The sole directorial effort of playwright/screenwriter/producer George Axelrod, Lord Love a Duck offers an odd mix of pointed comedy and inexplicable strangeness. Not particularly skilled behind the camera -- the shadow of a boom mike makes an uncredited guest appearance in at least one scene -- Axelrod makes for a pit bull of a satirist, tearing with abandon into the California youth culture that had become the center of the pop culture universe by 1966. The direct inspiration for Heathers and other high school-set black comedies, it features a strangely intense performance by Roddy McDowall as a charming, if cryptic, high school student who might also be a dangerous nihilist. His attempt to help transfer student Tuesday Weld make the transition to her new home allow the film to explore numerous aspects of '60s California, and Axlerod clearly delights in sending up his target of choice. He has less success finding a consistent tone or pace for the film, which is about as disjointed as they come, dipping from light comedy to high seriousness with little warning. Forgettable it's not, however, and fans of offbeat comedies owe it to themselves to give this one a chance.