Mister Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science-fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith.
[2] Mr. Drake inherits Green Acres Farm in Sussex, in the English countryside, where he moves with his new American bride Penny.
The film was based on a radio sketch by Ian Messiter called The Atomic Egg which Val Guest liked.
He wrote it for Yolande Donlan and it was originally called Mrs Drake's Duck but the title changed when Douglas Fairbanks Jr agreed to star.
[3] Upon the film's American release, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote: "Mister Drake's Duck is responsible for some chuckles, a few good-natured gibes at the British armed services and civil servants and the international race for atomic supremacy.