Mr. Drake's Duck

Mr. Drake's Duck (1951)

The hilarious story of the duck that lays ATOMIC eggs!

Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.

Date of release
1951-09-21
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy, Science Fiction
Director
Val Guest

Casting

Interesting facts

Mr Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science-fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. It was written by Ian Messiter and Guest, and concerns a farmer who discovers that one of his ducks has started laying radioactive eggs.

Production

In a 1988 interview, Guest recalled that the film was based on a radio sketch by Ian Messiter called The Atomic Egg. Guest wrote a film treatment for Yolande Donlan, originally called Mrs Drake's Duck, but the title was changed when Douglas Fairbanks Jr agreed to star. "They got on very well Yo and Doug and we all had a lot of laughs," said Guest. Nat Cohen invested in the film.

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