LORD LOVE A DUCK
1966,
Park Circus/MGM,
105 min,
Dir: George Axelrod
Overgrown teenage outcast Roddy McDowall becomes fast friends and protector of cheerleader Tuesday Weld in this jaw-dropping, incredibly subversive black comedy. Lola Albright is Weld’s alcoholic cocktail-waitress mom, Harvey Korman the puffed-up high school principal, Martin Gabel the Sam Arkoff-inspired exploitation auteur - and Ruth Gordon the poisonously sarcastic mother-in-law addicted to yogurt and Stingers. Features one of the grooviest 1960s soundtracks ever, courtesy of the legendary Neal Hefti.