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Up Your Teddy Bear (1970)
Directed by Don Joslyn
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Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King’s hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle “Skippy” Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which “Mother,” the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King’s predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him.
Rated R | Length 89 minutes
Actors
Julie Newmar | Valora Noland | Victor Buono | Thordis Brandt | Claire Kelly | Angelique Pettyjohn | Wally Cox | Amy Thomson
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/03/2013 | Movie Screen | Other | Borrowed | 3 stars |
| (Average) 3 stars |
Viewing Notes
This is a weird film that has some awesome players within. Julie Newmar, Wally Cox and Victor Buono round out the leads in a film that I find very hard to describe. Awesome 70s jazzy, almost TV theme style, music by THE Quincy Jones and tons of tunes whistled, hummed, and sung by Cox. Not to mention one a-ma-zing dance sequence near the end of the film. There are tons of fantasy moments and costume changes - especially on Buono’s part. Seeing him in drag is both hilarious and frightening.
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