Birds Do It

Birds Do It

Soupy Sales is Flying High...and the race for space - is up in the air!
Overview:

Melvin Byrd works as a janitor at the rocket propulsion laboratory. He is accidentally negatively ionised in a solar radiation device that leaves him able to defy gravity and a magnet to the opposite sex. Floating out to sea, he is pursued by scientists, military, irresistibly attracted women and foreign spies, who each want him for their own purpose.

Released: 1966-08-13
Duration: 01:28:00
Director: Andrew Marton
Description

The film opens with a series of unsuccessful assassination attempts by an unknown organisation with their target being Melvin Byrd (Sales). Byrd is a janitor in a NASA laboratory headed by Major General Smithburn (Andrews) with his security officer being an inept bungler, Lt. Porter (Hunter). Porter is captured and impersonated by an enemy double from the same organization attempting to kill Byrd.

The head scientist Professor Waid (O'Connell) has employed Byrd due to his excellent janitorial skills as Waid blames American space program failures on dust that caused disasters. Byrd parodies the Ajax "stronger than dirt" white knight commercial when cleaning the base.

Waid's secret project is developing an ionisation process initially to be tested on a chimpanzee (Judy the Chimp, from Daktari) that would make the subject capable of anti-gravity with a side effect that not only gives him the ability to fly, but makes him "the most attractive man" on Earth. When General Smithburn leads a Congressional delegation who are in Florida due to European junkets being cancelled, Byrd hides in the ionization machine, causing him to be ionized. In addition to losing the ability to stay on the ground for longer than brief periods, Byrd finds himself forced to fight off the attentions of a Congresswoman (Doris Dowling) and Waid's daughter Claudine (Adams) as well as the assassins.

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