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Up Your Teddy Bear

Dec 23, 1970 · 1h 29m
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Comedy

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Julie Newmar
Toy Company Director, a.k.a. "Mother"
Wally Cox
Clyde King
Victor Buono
Lyle "Skippy" Ferns
Angelique Pettyjohn
Ms. Honeysuckle
Thordis Brandt
Debra Sur
Claire Kelly
Miss Boota, sculptress
Valora Noland
Girl Lifting Dress (in flashback)
Amy Thomson
Nightclub Waitress
Directed by Don Joslyn

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Joslyn Films
Country
US

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