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Lord Love a Duck
Lord Love a Duck
Directed by	George Axelrod
Written by	Al Hine; George Axelrod
Starring	Roddy McDowall; Tuesday Weld; Lola Albright; Martin West; Ruth Gordon; Harvey Korman
Music by	Neal Hefti
Release date	1966
Country	United States
Language	English

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Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 film starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld. The film was a satire of popular culture at the time, its targets ranging from progressive ducation 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 straight-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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-Alan, who has nicknamed himself "Mollymauk" after an extinct bird, and Barbara Ann are both senior transfer students at Los Angeles' new, ultra-modern Consolidated High School. Under Alan's hypnotic spell, Barbara Ann reveals her desire to be popular. Alan assures her that he will make her every wish come true. First, Barbara Ann wishes to join a sorority whose members must each own twelve cashmere sweaters, and Alan has her persuade her father to buy the sweaters. Barbara Ann is failing her plant studies class, so Alan tells her to apply for a job in a principal's office. She uses her sex appeal (and her cashmere sweater) to win the job. The principal, who has fallen head over heels for Barbara, can't let his new secretary fail, so he convinces her teacher to let her pass. Barbara Ann then meets wealthy and handsome college senior Bob Barnard during a sex seminar at a drive-in church, and she decides to vacation at Balboa, where Bob is to be chaperone. Alan drives her to Balboa, where she is spotted by a producer of beach party movies. He plans to make her a star. Bob, who is in love with Barbara Ann, has problems with his zany mother, so Alan installs himself in the Barnard household and takes over the management of Mrs. Barnard by introducing her to alcohol. Mrs. Barnard discovers that Marie, Barbara Ann's divorced mother, is a cocktail waitress and tries to end the romance. Thinking that she has ruined her daughter's life, Marie commits suicide. Later, Bob and Barbara Ann marry, despite Mrs. Barnard's objections. Bob, who has graduated and become a marriage counselor, refuses to let his wife go to Hollywood for a screen test, so Barbara Ann orders Alan to kill him. Bob proves almost indestructible, but by graduation time Alan has put him in a wheelchair. At Consolidated's graduation, he pursues Bob with a bulldozer, killing him and everyone on the speaker's platform as well. Barbara Ann goes on to Hollywood fame as the star of "Bikini Widow", while Alan is put in a psychiatric ward.
+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 straight-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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