Lord Love a Duck
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Movie Reviews of Lord Love a Duck
Movie Review: A Hollywood version of the book;however the characters match
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was part of the library in the Hypnosis Institute of Ft. Worth. In the book he is a master of judo and hypnosis. If you notice in the movie he carries keys. The movie just implies that he uses keys for hypnosis.
Mollymauk has the ability to get whatever he wants; that is until he meets Barbara Ann Greene and nothing-quite goes as planned. Who would ever suspect that something that was called deadly nightshade would only make you sick?
They picked just the right characters for the part and no matter what movies Roddy McDowall is in I will always think of him as Mollymauk.
The film also has a catchy tune that is played throughout the story.
See Lola Albright again as a mother in "The Impossible Years" (1968)
See Roddy McDowall again in Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun" (1982).
Movie Review: What's It All About?
Summary: 5 Stars
What's it all about? That's a good question. Perhaps the insignificance of our mercenary aspirations as we get older compared to just enjoying life when we are young and innocent is what director and writer George Axelrod had in mind. Roddy McDowall brilliantly plays the man of wisdom way beyond the youthful body that hosts his knowledge of what is truly important in our lives.
Movie Review: Lord Love a Duck is seriously weird.
Summary: 5 Stars
A parody of almost everything, much of it mercilessly blunt and over the top. The writing, direction and acting are all excellent. One of my favorite movies.Movie Review: This DUCK Was Better The Second Time Around
Summary: 4 Stars
Just to see Tuesday Weld (never better!), Roddy McDowall (rarely better)and Ruth Gordon (always wonderful, no matter what she's in) romp through this comic mess is worth the price of the DVD, and then some. I saw this film when it came out in the 60s and didn't like it much, but bought the DVD hoping I might find more in it than I did as a teenager. Turns out I really enjoyed it the second time around. It makes fun of a lot of different things and has an edge about it in the process. School, school administrators, authority figures, parents, shrinks, teenagers, consumerism, fame, dating, social snobism---you name it and it's a target. There are several scenes that are laugh-out-loud funny: Tuesday Weld going out with her father (she lives with her divorced mother), first to a drive-in fast food joint and then on a sweater-buying shopping spree; Harvey Korman in all his scenes. (By the way, what I really find interesting about 60s films is how much people smoked and drank, even in comedies. Lola Albright, very good as Weld's cocktail-waitress mother, just pours herself a stiff one when things get tough. It's almost jarring how that type of on-screen behavior has changed over the last 40 years.) In any event, this is an inconsistent but highly enjoyable film from the "crazy" 60s.
Movie Review: McDowall, Weld and Gordon salvage this disjointed mess
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie tries to be a brilliant satirical comedy, but it fails almost as often as it succeeds -- and a few of the failures are downright painful to watch. E.g. the scene of a father lusting after his daughter, to the point of moaning and drooling, tries to be funny, or bizarre, or something, but comes off simply as what it is: horribly creepy and perverted.
Also, the direction in this film isn't just bad, for the most part it's non-existent. Fortunately with Weld, McDowall and Gordon at the acting helm, the lack of direction isn't fatal.
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