Director Willard Huyck and producer Gloria Katz - the team that wrote George Lucas' American Graffiti and Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom - adapted the Marvel comic favourite that sees a humanoid duck from another planet land in America and attempt to save Earth from the forces of evil. Howard drinks beer, chomps on cigars, reads 'Playduck', and finds himself attracted to a sexy rock singer named Beverly (Lea Thompson, Back to the Future), while Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) plays the nerdy scientist enraptured at finding an alien duck. Wry, witty, fun and in the great underdog tradition of Guardians of The Galaxy, Howard the Duck today stands as a cult 80s classic.