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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.

Valora Noland does not appear in the narrative of the film, just in a brief flashback to Clyde King's childhood.

The songs were recorded by Welsh group Eyes Of Blue, who met Quincy Jones in London. They are credited as written by Jones and Richard Francis, of the group.


Cast overview, first billed only:
Julie Newmar Julie Newmar - Toy Company Director, a.k.a. "Mother"
Wally Cox Wally Cox - Clyde King
Victor Buono Victor Buono - Lyle "Skippy" Ferns
Claire Kelly Claire Kelly - Miss Boota, sculptress
Angelique Pettyjohn Angelique Pettyjohn - Miss Honeysuckle (as Angelique Pettijohn)
Thordis Brandt Thordis Brandt - Debra Sur
Valora Noland Valora Noland - Girl Lifting Dress (in flashback) (as Valora Nolan)
Amy Thomson Amy Thomson - Nightclub Waitress (as Amy Thompson)
Viki Ellison Viki Ellison
Kathy Wakefield Kathy Wakefield
Barbara Gabrielle Barbara Gabrielle
Anne McClain Anne McClain
Joan Harold Joan Harold
Pat Livingston Pat Livingston
Karen Teichmann Karen Teichmann
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