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Summary: This DUCK Was Better The Second Time Around
Review: 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.
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Summary: Tape was of poor quality
Review: Like the title states, the tape was of poor quality and skipped alot, making viewing difficult, and it is to much of a pain and just as costly to ship back.I do not recommend buying from this media distributer.
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Summary: Cult Classic Ahead Of It's Time
Review: Roddy McDowell performs with comic melancholy opposite a comely Tuesday Weld.Roddy weaves a hillarious romp through the sacred and profane-defrocking insincere preachers,youth culture, and love itself.Armed with Barracuda jacket and Classic T-Bird ,McDowell shines in this well directed film.A toe tapping soundtrack will keep you yelling "Hey,Hey,Hey" for the nexy twenty year
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Summary: A Hollywood version of the book;however the characters match
Review: The book was part of the library in the Hypnosis Institute of Ft. Worth. That was what the base story is a bout the ability Mollymauk has to get whatever he wants. 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. See Lola Albright again as a mother in The Impossible Years (1968) ASIN: 6302985250 The last time I saw Roddy McDowall was in Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982) ASIN: 6302990130.
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Summary: One of the oddest (yet funny) movies ever made
Review: The only way I can imagine this movie got made was that some Hollywood executive who was completely confused and clueless about what would appeal to younger viewers in the sixties agreed to allow this very strange George Axelrod film to be filmed. In a vague way, it seems almost to be an updating of FAUST, with Roddy McDowell as Alan "Mollymauk" Musgrave playing Mephistopheles to Tuesday Weld's Barbara Ann. Through all manner of devious means Mollymauk brings Barbara Ann's every dream come true. Viewers are either going to love this or hate it. I showed it to my daughter, and she thought it one of the strangest films she had ever seen. And so it is. It is one of those films, like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH or THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T that seems too off-the-wall for anyone to have agree to finance it. If you are feeling like something different, and completely unlike anything else you have ever seen, you could do worse than give this film a chance.
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Summary: Look All Around You
Review: This 1966 black comedy, directed by the prominent screenwriter George Axelrod, was way ahead of its time. He satirizes American teenage culture, new concepts in modern day education, psychoanalysis and just about anything in society that requires scrutiny. There's a terrific score composed by Neal Hefti. Neal Hefti was in such demand for his unique style of comic scoring during the 60s and then he was gone. This film is like a trip back in time. They were modern times but people still used to take the time and look at something new or different. I think that's what so great about this movie. Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld as they were will remain eternal on this film.
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Summary: Roddy did it all for LOVE!!!
Review: This is a very funny movie about a boy who loves a girl and makes the girl happy by getting her whatever she wants no matter what it takes even if it's murder! Alan should have told her he loved her from the start. I am sure she would have felt the same way, I know I would have!!! Hey Hey Hey Hey LORD LOVE A DUCK!!!! LORD I LOVE RODDY!!!!
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Summary: Down on your Luck-O? Stuck in the Muck-O!!
Review: This movie is unbelievabe. One of the best ever. If you like black comedy and satire, you'll like it too. Every line spoken in this movie has some satirical edge to it. The same can be said for every camera shot. The movie deals with fame, greed, vanity, education, sexual promiscuity, california culture, the exploitation of minors, religion, law enforcement, family values, high school life, and talks at length on the "be careful what you ask for..." concept. There's more still, but you get the idea.
This is a movie that even goes out of it's way to make you aware that it's a "just a movie" Some people think the direction is sloppy, because of all the boom mics visible, but I think they're actually supposed to be seen. The opening credits feature a montage of shots showing the filming of the movie while in production, and the entire philosophy of the film falls in with the idea that things are not really what they seem and that you should never believe what hollywood tells without questioning first...you're even supposed to be aware that what you're watching is a movie.
The music is a riot, especially the opening song.
This movie is hard to find but worth the trouble.
Non-stop hilarity from beginning to end while making you think about anything and everything. There are scenes that are funny and disturbing at the same time.
A real gem!
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Summary: Great dark comedy-not loved enough.
Review: This really is one of those cult comedies that doesn't seem to have enough people singing it's praises. Roddy Mcdowall and Tuesday Weld are marvelous here. Almost everything I've read about it declares it ahead of it's time and I agree 100%. Hats off to George Axelrod for being quite funny and inspiring!
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