Lord Love A Duck (1966)

From a psychiatric hospital (or it might be prison), a high school student (37 year old Roddy McDowall) recalls the events that brought him to this point in time. Namely, his obsession with a Lolita like nymphet (Tuesday Weld). Based on the novel by Al Hine and co-written and directed by George Axelrod (THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH). This black comedy which is a satire of everything from teenagers, psychoanalysis, education, motherhood and beach party movies was topical in 1966 but comes off today as too broad and unsubtle. McDowall's teen age hero was no doubt supposed to be seen as a non conformist rebel back in the day but in 2017, he's just another obnoxious bitter nerd. But mindless materialistic teenage girls still exist and so we have Tuesday Weld to savor playing a teenage Bardot sex kitten, who wants what she wants immediately without actually earning it. Two other actresses save the picture: Lola Albright who's terrific as Weld's aging cocktail waitress mother and Ruth Gordon as Weld's mother in law from hell. With Harvey Korman (surprisingly unfunny), Martin Gabel, Max Showalter, Martine Bartlett and Sarah Marshall.