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Anyone who respects an original idea such as atomic duck eggs will be tempted to see "Mr. Drake's Duck." Unfortunately, he will find little originality and less humor in Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s web-footed producing and acting.
Spending his honeymoon with Yolanda Donlan (Mrs. Drake) on a farm in England, Fairbanks plays the dude. He continually argues with a cynical caretaker, whose Aroostook twang is painfully out of place, and with a handyman who can never finish a job. This too typical domestic scene is complemented by...
The ducks, which are a welcome relief, arrive after Yo-Yo inadvertently nods during an auction. After quarreling over the poultry, the Drakes make up by writing on their first boiled duck eggs: "I'm sorry. Me too." When Fairbanks hits it with a knife, it gives off a note...
Stan, a man of action, hopped into a plane, flew down to Fairbanks, and went over to see his friends in the Estelle Machine Shop. There he talked and drew diagrams. That night, the Estelle gang worked until 4 in the morning, cutting and welding a nine-foot, piece of...
The next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which...