"Under the Yum Yum Tree" was advertised as "adult entertainment" back in 1963. I guess maybe the film's marketing department thought it would be too boring for kids, because it certainly isn't racy or "sexy" at all.
The plot is predictably dumb. Hogan (Jack Lemmon) is the leering manager of an apartment house who only rents to attractive young women. He spends his time peeping into his tenants' windows and lusting after them. When young, attractive Robin (Carol Lynley) and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) move in, Hogan is determined to break up their relationship. Robert Lansing, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, and Bill Bixby also have prominent roles.
The film is incredibly dated. Young women are portrayed as hopeless bimbos, and there's nothing funny about an apartment manager peeping into his female tenants' windows. Instead of being "sexy", the film gave me a pretty creepy feeling throughout, and I didn't find it funny at all. Paul Lynde's character is even more smarmy than the ones he usually played. It's too bad that so many good actors appeared in this movie, because they could have been starring in something much better.
The plot is predictably dumb. Hogan (Jack Lemmon) is the leering manager of an apartment house who only rents to attractive young women. He spends his time peeping into his tenants' windows and lusting after them. When young, attractive Robin (Carol Lynley) and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) move in, Hogan is determined to break up their relationship. Robert Lansing, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, and Bill Bixby also have prominent roles.
The film is incredibly dated. Young women are portrayed as hopeless bimbos, and there's nothing funny about an apartment manager peeping into his female tenants' windows. Instead of being "sexy", the film gave me a pretty creepy feeling throughout, and I didn't find it funny at all. Paul Lynde's character is even more smarmy than the ones he usually played. It's too bad that so many good actors appeared in this movie, because they could have been starring in something much better.