Sunday 13 January 2019

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963 David Swift &co-scr)

Based on a play and co-written by Lawrence Roman, this is very difficult to like as Lemmon plays a kind of sociopath who preys on young women, spies on them and wanders into other people's apartments uninvited in the middle of the night. Carol Lynley and Dean Jones attempt a trial marriage, Edie Adams is Lemmon's ex, Imogene Coca and Paul Lynde (Bewitched) are the help.

You have to look hard for any little pleasures - a great cat, some funny sound effects (and those automatic violins) and a tiny boat. That's it. Oh, and this:



Photographed by Joseph Biroc. I'm not sure I could bear to watch it ever again.




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