Another sort of science fiction movie dealing with financial issues. Dean Jones as a struggling research professor. He exposes a duck in his lab to electricity and it starts laying eggs with yolks made of gold. The movie was made in 1971. It didn't become legal for Americans to own gold until 1974. Joe Flynn as a belligerent neighbor who works for the Treasury Department who causes trouble for them.
They keep losing the duck and scrambling to get it back. It's worth a fortune but they let the kid run around with it.
This was the first of three movies Gene Siskel walked out on over the years.
With Tony Roberts a year before Play It Again, Sam. Lee Harcourt Montgomery's first movie, just one year before Ben. With James Gregory and Frank Cady.
Story by Ted Key, the cartoonist who did the newspaper gag panel Hazel.
Government officials force their way into the house looking for the duck. The kid rides off with it in the basket of his bicycle like a proto-E.T.
Dean Jones is nearly killed several times in the final chase. Lee Montgomery jumps off a moving truck and is nearly killed trying to cross a ladder used as a bridge between two high buildings while holding a duck. He would rather die a horrible death than lose his pet.
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