Everything's Ducky

Beetle McKay (Mickey Rooney) and Admiral John Paul Jones (Buddy Hackett) are two sailors who make friends with a talking duck, who just happens to possess a secret formula. It seems the Navy satellite program needs the formula and so the chatty mallard is worth quite a bit. But in the meantime, the duck is hooked on booze and can't be easily concealed as he won't swim or quack like a normal duck. So the sailors have their work cut out for them as the deadline for launching the satellite approaches. This wacky comedy also stars Jackie Cooper, Joanie Sommers, and Elizabeth MacRae. Directed by Don Taylor. Newly remastered.

This fantasy-comedy is directed by Don Taylor whose specialty is horror and action flics, and clearly not talking ducks and children's tales. Beetle McKay (Mickey Rooney) and Admiral John Paul Jones (Buddy Hackett) are two wacky sailors who make friends with a talking duck, a verbose avian that possesses a secret formula. It seems the formula is needed by the Navy satellite program and so the talky mallard is worth quite a bit. But in the meantime, the duck is hooked on booze and is a failure at taking to the water or even sounding like a normal duck. So the sailors have their work cut out for them as the deadline for launching the satellite approaches.