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info-8606 I am one of those frequenters to Visit here in "IMDb.COM" to repeatedly return here over and over, to read other folks opinions, views and reviews of their Movie Going Experiences.I would love to see a place in the IMDb REVIEWS Section given over to the following Information...1/ Did the Reviewer actually "See" the Movie on it's Original Theatrical RELEASE DATE ? 2/ Was the Movie experienced in a Movie Theatre, or was it experienced on Home Video? I believe that there is a Definite relevance & significance to the responses gained from knowing the ANSWERS to these Two Questions. What has this anything to do with the MOTION PICTURE Released in 1963, known as "UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE" with Jack Lemon and Cast? Plenty.. My being born in 1946, I was 17 years old in 1963. I got to see this film in an "ATMOSPHERIC Cinema" check out on the www... to find out what an "ATMOSPHERIC CINEMA" consisted of ...In this very "ATMOSPHERIC CINEMA" it was there, only Three Years later that I would be found working in the "Projection Room" of that Very same Theatre, I did not know that at that time, -as I was still in High School- In the Year of 1963, filmed Adult material was in short supply, and Movies were being altered gradually from very prudish story-telling and just venturing into territory where it had previously been prevented and forbidden since the years 1933/1935 by the ENFORCEMENT OF "THE Hollywood PRODUCTION CODE"!!! Le us not forget, that in 1959 we had "PILLOW TALK" with Doris Day and Rock Hudson which was a Ground-Breaking Comedy for it's time... Then we come to 1963 with "UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE" in the Glorious Technicolor process, a film Technology that would be deliberately phased out over the next couple of years, due to the Costs involved in Producing TECHNICOLOR MOTION PICTURES, more is the pity."... Yum Yum Tree", was about a mature-aged male ogling young women, and offering a relatively safe male fantasy for the guys in the cinema going audiences of 1963, we had not seen such characters portrayed on screen before. I can recall the beautiful Color of the Film, Carol Lynley's character portrayal of a Young Girl who could handle herself well from the ever advancing approaches of her lecherous Landlord played by Jack Lemmon ...who had generally played in Film comedies throughout the 1950's, at that screening in 1963, I found myself laughing at the antics and of the verbal sparring & repartee between Dean Jones and Jack Lemmon. It was a film made for it's time in "Hollywood History" and NOT a movie made for 2017 AUDIENCES, of present day audiences who kid themselves, believing that they know MUCH BETTER and looking from the present Vantage point of looking back to a time, that they cannot remotely hope to relate to, as they have no reference point from which to operate from, as they did not live in that ERA back in the early 1960's. Now that I am at the age of 71+ (plus) when I read reviews here on IMDb, when I read middling or negative comments, I am pretty sure I can discern who actually has Experienced the MOVIE being reviewed at the time of the Picture's Original Theatrical Release date, and someone who has only recently seen something for the Very FIRST TIME being "DECADES AFTER" and since the Original Release... We cannot alter the past, we have indeed lost a great many things over the intervening years, and a Number of the things that I most regret losing, looking back, is common Courtesy and Respect & Decency...These things are what this Present Era Lacks in, Just look around us...

krdement This movie is a real stinker. I confess that I never have understood the comic appeal of extremely annoying characters. They just grate on my nerves. That describes Jack Lemmon in spades in this so-called comedy (which is really a farce). If a farce depicts mostly unbelievable characters portrayed by hammy actors in situations that defy any credibility, then this is a farce, and for those of you out there who enjoy such movies, this is the one for you.Almost as annoying as Mr. Lemmon's character is the boyfriend, portrayed by Dean Jones. I was, however, surprised to learn via this film that Mr. Jones appeared in films made outside of Disney - where he really belongs! Although Carol Lynley is no great shakes as an actress, she is beautiful - never more so than in this film. She is the only positive in this whole mess.This is a prime example of Hollywood's implosion after the golden age - due in no small part to the Code. Hollywood was totally incapable of depicting the 60's in a way that remotely reflected the reality. To prove the point, you only have to listen to the soundtracks of films that attempt to reflect the Pop Culture of the time: NONE OF THE MOVIES OF THAT ERA use any contemporaneously popular music! It is always some Hollywood producer's ersatz imitation. The soundtracks are a joke! Films like Under the Yum Yum Tree have that same hopelessly out-of-touch feel, even though music is not a critical element. The bizarre distortion of those times in films such as this is just as annoying as Mr. Lemmon's character.The equally bizarre concoction of morals - from hokey prudishness to monumental lecherousness - is not depicted with humor, but with that same Hollywood perspective that bears so little resemblance to reality that it is a hollow basis for humor.

theowinthrop UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE was one of three films in the middle 1960s that Jack Lemmon starred in that he despised. He had shown in THE APARTMENT and THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES that he was a gifted dramatic actor - an everyman fighting the pressures of modern society, be they big business bosses or alcoholism. Then he did GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM, HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE, and UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE. The first two films had good scripts and good productions. He was wrong about them, failing to see they were excellent entertaining (but minor) films. But his contempt for YUM YUM TREE is correct.Based on a moderately successful play, it was a sex farce. Set in a California motel, Lemmon's character (Hogan) is a letch. All he does is think of going to bed with the young ladies who make the mistake of checking into his motel. If they have boy friends or husbands, he sidetracks the males as quickly as possible. He has a machine that makes copies of every key to every suite in the motel, and in one scene (which I always found very detestable) we see him humming happily to himself as he manufactures a new set of keys. When questioned about his still having a key after apparently giving it up to Dean Jones, he tells Jones glibly (and quickly - his delivery is quite fast and annoying in this movie) that he has an unlimited supply of keys.In a sense, the eavesdropping Lemmon, so casually violating the privacy of his customers, is an attempt at a comic Norman Bates. Here, supposedly, the situation is all in good sexy fun. But one can make a case that Norman's attacks on young women in bathtubs were also done out of a sense of sexual fun - only a sadistic one. That Lemmon's character gets a good comeuppance at the end does not help this film at all. It still quite lousy. I don't think Lemmon ever played a less likable character or appeared in a worse movie part.

fairwaters Love Jack Lemmon? Then give this naughty little comedy a spin! Of course films made 40 years ago were not made to today's social standards. but that doesn't stop this wicked romp from being completely enjoyable. Imogene Coca offers up a spirited protagonist in this film. a performance that should not be missed! Shake up a swinging cocktail and sit back in your velvet lounge for a delicious sexual frolic.34 year old female.