Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Becomes a gentleman farmer on a run-down old farm in England. Yolande Donlan is his bride who wants to learn all about farming and is as handy as a drunken octopus in a leaky pickle barrel. Her education into all things agricultural includes her first visit to a cattle auction where she accidentally buys sixty ducks. The duck egg which she fixes for her husband's breakfast the next day has a green yolk which attracts the attention of a local bureaucrat who is delivering some of the myriad forms which are required when farming in England. He sends it off for analysis and the army, admiralty and R. A. F. Quickly descend on the farm when it is found the egg contains uranium.
This is not high art nor intense drama but it is a quite enjoyable way to spend an hour and fifteen minutes.
I was surprised to find that Yolande Donlan did not have a more extensive career. Her performance is charming and I would have thought that being paired with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Should have been a sort of passport to good roles before health issues affected her work.
I am sure that some will recognize Jon Pertwee. He plays here a general farm hand. This is nearly twenty years prior to his appearance in: Doctor Who. He actually looks older in this role than he did in 1970!
Wilfrid Hyde-White is perfect as the officious bureaucrat who unwittingly causes so much chaos.
Many of the other actors are very familiar as veteran character actors in English movies of the era and all perform well.
We began watching this on: Amazon Prime but that copy ends a full twenty minutes early and so we had to go to: YouTube to watch the ending.
I give this a 9/10 for what it is. It lost a point merely because it began repeating gags near the end.
