Up Your Teddy Bear

Release Date: 1970-12-23

Overview: 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.

Rating: 2 / 10

Cast

Julie Newmar

as Toy Company Director, a.k.a. "Mother"

Wally Cox

as Clyde King

Victor Buono

as Lyle "Skippy" Ferns

Angelique Pettyjohn

as Ms. Honeysuckle

Thordis Brandt

as Debra Sur

Crew

Don Joslyn - Director
Don Joslyn - Writer

Reviews

dennyjt:

Mess of a comedy, cheap looking and tawdry, this is still a fascinating, bizarre curio with an interesting cast. Toy executive Newmar tries to recruit Cox, using Buono to try at trap him. Cox is an ob...