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| Tuesday, yesterday, forever ... |
In a recent comment, FiveGunsWest™ claimed his favorite movie soundtrack was Lord Love A Duck. A quick sift through my local internet learnt me that it was a movie I should immediately pretend to have known all about. How did this one slip past my all-seeing Eye Of Agamotto? Helmed (as we movie buffs like to say) by Tinseltown heavyweight George Axelrod (Seven Year Itch, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Manchurian Candidate) and starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld it's a screwball satire on contemporary (1966) U.S. culture - including surf movies - and a definitive slab o' 'sixties celluloid. Kind of a shame it was shot in black and white, you ax me. There's a shit copy on YewChewb, if you want to get your fingernails dirty, or you can download this here swell copy what I eventually dragged clear of the seaweed in the Pirate Bay. Axelrod brilliantly said the movie was "pop porn or Dirty Disney. It may yet give bad taste a bad name." Look for the name of the Director of Photography in the credits as the bikini babes frug surfside!Making up a swell double drive-in FoamFeature® is
Ride The Wild Surf, from '64. Older readers may remember the awesome soundtrack album by Jan And The Deans being FoamFeatured© antecedently. Turns out the album is much, much better than the movie, which only features the title song. Yeesh.
Fans of Fabian and Tab Hunter will enjoy the buff bod-flexing and waxed coiffs, and there's beach babes au-go-go for the rest of us, but it's standard Surf Opera© fare. This copy took forever to drag out of the seaweed, too, and it's probably the only way you'll ever get to see it, so quit whinin', ya ingrate.
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| Barbara Eden, Shelley Fabares, and Susan Hart want to wax your board |
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| A tomato triptych from Lord Love A Duck |
A team of shackled Chinese orphans is laboring to upload these onto the internet as we speak.
ReplyDeleteWOWzers!!!! I'm so amazed I nearly 'fell as one astonied'. Thank you so much Farq, dear boy. I had copied the UChewed video which is a bit scuff. Can't wait to DL this awesome pair of cellie Jaworskys.
Delete*makes courtly leg, flourishes kerchief* The thanks are entirely due to your heads-up. How this remains less-known than other Peak Sixties movies is a mystery.
DeleteHey, I thought I was to one who got the board waxed, but the beach combers these days, who knows? SOMEONES board's getting waxed this weekend, just hope yer on the right side. Either way, drooling to see these flicks whenever they're ready. No point in pretending, never heard of LLaD, but the title sells the ticket. I did see RtWS as a kid. Hope it doesn't suck now. Nice eye candy no doubt.
ReplyDeleteNo-nonsense link: https://workupload.com/archive/fLHhyXtW
DeleteThanks!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, random anonymous internet surfer!
DeleteIt is freakin' cool. That's because you're feeling th' FoamFactor© - that indefinable sense of coolness that spreads from th' Isle O' Foam© like a summer breeze. It's copacetic! Therapeutic!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that Jan & Dean's involvement in the movie was curtailed due to the minor role Dean played in the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.. Apparently, the kidnapper asked Dean hypothetically how he would go about the crime and Dean was rewarded with a sackful of money. I think the powers that be were afraid Fabian would be in danger if J & D were part of the project.
ReplyDeleteIn '64 I saw Ride The Wild Surf, in Brooklyn. Little did I know, at the time, that in three years, I'd be part of SoCal Hermosa Beach surf scene. Of course, the actual scene was much different than portrayed on celluloid.
ReplyDeletein 64 we lived next door to a drive in. if it was crowded you could hear the soundtrack along with the picture from our back yard. that's how i saw rtws.
ReplyDeletep.s. jesus goddamn christ!! tuesday was so beautiful!! i hope she is living a happy life. she was really funny in the dobie gillis show.
Boy Howdy!! Dirty Disney and Beach Babes Au-Go-Go are right up my alley! Shelly can wax my board anytime. Thx!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this beautiful copy of one of my favorite movies.
ReplyDeleteA pleasure.
DeleteStrange how a cockney exclamation of mild surprise - usually rendered as "Lor' luvva duck" - became a Hollywood film title.
ReplyDeleteMy father used the phrase. He was what Americans call a WASP; an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
DeleteI'm amazed the expression travelled that far.
DeleteI'm pretty sure he (and other Americans) got it from P. G. Wodehouse.
DeleteJeeves used to say it :
Delete” ‘Well, Lord love a duck!’ replied the butler, who in his moments of relaxation was addicted to homely expletives of the lower London type.”
One's butlers would orfen say things like that, dontcha know
Cripes!
DeleteI note that "diversity" meant having a blonde, brunette, and a red-head in the movie.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, one woman can be diverse.
DeleteCowabunga, Farq! I got some gnarly viewing ahead.
ReplyDeleteYou shoulda been here yesterday...
DeleteI was, how did I miss it?
DeleteIt's a quote from the surfing film 'Endless Summer'
Deletehttps://clip.cafe/the-endless-summer-1965/and-everywhere-went-s1/
Next train's gone
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhoI9VRppEg
Never saw these, but now I want to.
ReplyDeleteCome now! Director of Photography for LLAD?
ReplyDeleteIn sad film-related news...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/obituaries/bob-rafelson-dead.html