A 10-minute fever dream where a duck's biggest threat is… indigestion?
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
Acting
Franklin Pangborn's escalating panic is silent-comedy gold.
Production
Bizarre fantasy sequences in a kitchen-sink comedy.
Director
Nick Grindé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pete Smith narrated hundreds of MGM's 'Pete Smith Specialties,' bizarre short subjects that ran before features for decades.
This captures pre-Code Hollywood's love of slipping surrealism into domestic comedies before the Hays Code sanitized everything.
US
