Roddy McDowall
Alan 'Mollymauk' Musgrave
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Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 American teen black comedy-drama film produced, directed and co-written by George Axelrod and 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 .
With Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West. A bright satirical comedy about an innocent high school girl granted her wishes by a student prodigy. A broad satire of teenage culture in the sixties, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach movies.
- (1.8K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Axelrod
- 1966-07-29
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An unusually gifted high school senior, Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowall), decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld), achieve her...
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- Roddy Mcdowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright
- George Axelrod
- Comedy
Synopsis. In the psychiatric ward of a prison, Alan Musgrave, who calls himself "Mollymauk" after an extinct duck-like bird, tells his story into a tape recorder. Alan and Barbara Ann Greene are both senior transfer students at Los Angeles' new, ultra-modern Consolidated High School.
Less well known but equally audacious is his go-for-broke directorial debut, Lord Love a Duck (1966), a poisonous love letter to the movie business that nourished him and a satire of Southern California culture with its drive-in chapels, fast food restaurants, and self-improvement seminars.
