Million Dollar Duck
by Vincent McEveety
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Actor: Dean Jones, James Gregory, Joe Flynn, Sandy Duncan, Tony RobertsDirector: Vincent McEveety
Brand: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Cinematographer: William E. Snyder
Editor: Lloyd L. Richardson
Producer: Bill Anderson
Writer: Roswell Rogers
Writer: Ted Key
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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- All that glitters is gold in this wacky Disney comedy with a sparkling cast of top-notch comedians! Charley, a research test duck, is accidentally showered with radiation during a lab experiment . and nonchalantly produces eggs with solid gold yolks! Professor Albert Dooley (Dean Jones) and his wife, Katie (Sandy Duncan), proceed to cash in on this newfound bonanza -- until their scrambled financ
DVD Reviews of Million Dollar Duck
DVD Review: Worth a mint to ME!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ah, Disney's Million Dollar Duck. Yes, it's famous as a prime example of Disney's 70's cheese and one of the only three films critic Gene Siskel walked out on. Well, Gene Siskel can eat it, because this movie rocks!
Dean Jones, in my opinion, one of the greatest actors ever, stars as a research scientist, husband, and father who is barely scraping by on his meager income. That is, until one of his lab animals, a misfit duck, eats a strange mixture and wanders into another lab, accidentally becoming radiated. An alchemist's dream come true, the duck then begins to lay eggs with solid gold yolks! The scientist, whose name is Albert Dooley, becomes aware of this, as does his lawyer friend, Fred (Tony Roberts), who becomes his financial partner. With the help of Albert's dizzy wife, Katie, the Dooleys' financial situation starts looking up. But not so successfully blossoming is Albert's relationship with his young son, Jimmy, who is becoming invisible due to his father's gold fever. Another, some would say more serious problem comes up too, as the gold buyers Mrs. Dooley has been selling the egg yolks to decide to inform the government of their strange new acquisitions. Soon, the Dooley's have the U.S. Treasury Department after them, and there's no telling how things will turn out in the end. Though, being a Disney comedy, it's safe to assume it will all work out alright.
That's the story, but how is the movie? Well, like I said, I LOVE it! It's cheesy at times, sure. It has a few moments when the script is just terrible. One scene that comes to mind is when the lawyer/friend character of Fred basically feels he has to explain the joke he is acting out. Something to the effect of, "What am I doing? A grown man with a law degree crawling around on his hands and knees looking for a duck that lays golden eggs?!" Yeah, it's funnier if you don't try to tell us it's funny, Fred. Nevertheless, the fantasy of acquiring your own money/gold-making machine, so to speak, is so universal that it is easy to get lost in the corny story with its corny characters. Plus, the little, gold egg yolks just look so cool! Sandy Duncan as Katie Dooley may be so stupid that it's brain numbing, but she's still very entertaining (heck of a bod back then too), and ya gotta love Joe Flynn (playing a nosy-neighbor/government stoolpigeon here) doing what he does best in all these classic Disney 70's comedies. Is "Million Dollar Duck" a silly film? Undoubtedly. Is it delightful? Yes. Granted, there is a nostalgia factor for me. I loved the film on the Disney Channel growing up. However, I did recently show this one to someone else who had never seen it before, an adult, and that person enjoyed it greatly too. If you LIKE silly, pretty wholesome comedies with a slight fantasy element in the mix, this is a great one, and I recommend the other Disney comedies of the seventies (and earlier) too, especially the Dexter Riley films, the Herbie the Love Bug films, and the Shaggy Dog and Shaggy D.A.! They're all great fun!
A final word on the DVD itself. Like many (or should I say most?) Disney live-action DVD releases, this DVD is completely barebones. It's not in widescreen, but of course, the proper framing of Disney classics is often in question, and this is one that doesn't seem to be losing much picture to whatever cropping might have been done. So, yeah, not much else to say about it. All you get here is the movie, but it's still a must for my collection.
Description of Million Dollar Duck
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?MPAA Rating: G
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 89 minutes
Disney?s classic 1971 comedy about the goose that lay the golden eggs returns in digital format, retaining its old-style family-friendliness, slapstick silliness, and good-natured predictability. Dean Jones plays professor Albert Dooley, a lab worker down on his luck, who lives in suburbia with his earnest yet scatterbrained wife Katie (played deliciously by Sandy Duncan). When an under-performing lab duck?s life is in jeopardy, Dooley rescues him to become a family pet and soon discovers that some earlier exposure to radiation has turned the duck?s eggs into gold. The Dooley?s newfound wealth brings its share of pandemonium as they try to keep their proverbial "nest egg" under wraps, especially from nosy neighbor Finley Hooper (Joe Flynn), a government Treasury man. Such low-tech fare is not without touches of brilliance: Duncan gets to deliver the best lines and does so with great panache. If Million Dollar Duck falls short in inventiveness, this small serving of comfort food satisfies with ample amounts of warmhearted cheer. (Ages 4 and older) --Lynn Gibson
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