X-Rated

August, 1977

Dirty Duck opens with the bold claim that "this film has no socially redeeming values." Well, that's dead right, yet the movie has some value as a promising X-rated cartoon feature in the tradition of Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat. Written, designed and directed by animator Charles Swenson, with music and most of the soundtrack voices supplied by the team of Flo and Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, two seasoned lunatics formerly associated with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention),...