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Bright performance by lovely Carol Lynley, 10 novembre 2005
6/10
Author: scruffy58 (scruffy58@excite.com) da Troy, NY, USA

Sure, the premise is sleazy, Jack Lemmon is embarrassing but the film is fast paced and certainly bouncy. The main reason to watch is because of a very charming and funny performance by the lovely Carol Lynley. Although she hasn't had many chances during her career to show off her comedic talents, this film contains a wonderfully funny scene in which Ms. Lynley's character is drunk. Her boyfriend, played perfectly by Dean Jones, is trying not to take advantage of her 'accessibility'. She runs the gamut from sexy to goofy with excellent timing. It is a wonderful performance and one that helps to take an edge off of the sleaziness of the main plot (Mr. Lemmon's apartment manager trying to deflower all these attractive young women).

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Sex + Fun = Box-Office Number One., 6 luglio 2002
10/10
Author: eva25at da Vienna, Austria

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Have you enjoyed the double-meanings in "Some like it hot"?. Then this film might be something for you. A fantastic decorated tree suddenly shoots up. A beautiful girl kisses the fruits, weighs them in her hands, and dances to the sound of the catchy title-song. With lyrics like: " All the natural perfume should make the firework start" and "The happy juices will sure start flowing/ Under the Yum Yum Tree".

The scene: Centaur-Apartments. The landlord: Hogan (Jack Lemmon). He rents his apartments only to beautiful young ladies. The price: $75. Plus naturals.

His latest flame, Irene (Edie Adams)is about to leave. She's had enough of the pleasure of his company.("Am I a vitamin-pill? a sanitary casanova?", he complains). The aunt moves out; her niece (Carol Lynley) in. She's a clever girl with a progressive plan(for 1963): She's afraid that her marriage will end in divorce, leaving her shattered and with children.(And some critics accuse this film of being outdated!). She wants to have a try at marriage - without really having it. She and her boy-friend David (Dean Jones) will live like a couple, but: No sex, please! He's going to sleep on a folding-bed, 6 meters apart from her. But such good intentions are not so easy to carry out when the curtain separating them is transparent...

Meanwhile Hogan, after having done his share of peeping and eavesdropping, starts his attack on Robin's innocence. First, he persuades David, to invest his unused energy in athletics: Swimming, jogging, weight-lifting - all day long.(Poor David will have to do many push-ups, especially at nights!).

With David asleep of exhaustion, it's easy for Hogan to invite the offended Robin to a little rendez-vous. After a vase, intended for Hogan, is smashed on Irene's head instead, David plans his revenge: Armed with mescal (booze) and a book by Boccaccio he tries to seduce his fiancee. Yet, just one step before reaching his goal (Robin drunk & willing) David proves himself a man of principle. He leaves the scene. But, you may remember, he is not the only man around...

It's not hard to see why this film was such a big hit: a non-stop-firework of gags and sparkling performances make this a guilty pleasure to watch. Lynley is witty and bright, Jones successfully repeats his Broadway-performance, and Paul Lynde and Imogene Coca are extremely funny as Hogan's gardener and housekeeper. About Lemmon's performance Variety wrote: "For Lemmon, the role as amorous landlord is a tour-de-farce and he plays it to the hilt" - and we know what this means...

Many found this film tasteless, sleazy and what not. But the public usually has its own way to "punish" those who make their money with sex-comedies: They made Lemmon the male nr.1 star at the box-office.

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Ensign Pulver's Dream House, 9 settembre 2007
4/10
Author: bkoganbing da Buffalo, New York

I'm sure that the reason Jack Lemmon was cast in the screen version of Under the Yum Yum Tree was the resemblance of his character of the landlord Hogan here with the part that got him his first Oscar, Ensign Frank Pulver in Mister Roberts. Superficially there is a resemblance.

But the womanizing frat boy gone to sea in Mister Roberts is behaving under acceptable standards. It's kind of expected that men act out their sexual fantasies being deprived of it when on sea duty. Those stories about sailors on shore leave aren't an exaggeration.

In Under the Yum Yum Tree it's as though Frank Pulver was left an inheritance of an apartment building which is obviously strategically located near a co-ed campus. What was acceptable behavior for Lemmon in Mister Roberts is unbelievable in this situation.

Try as he might Lemmon cannot make this character likable. He's a rich guy who never worked a day in his life which apparently is devoted to being a peeping tom in regard to all the beautiful young women he rents to. And he only rents to young women.

When you think about it, it's pretty darn scary. I can't believe one of these girls hasn't called the police on him.

On Broadway the play was a five character thing and only Dean Jones came over from Broadway. Lemmon, Carol Lynley's part, and Edie Adams part were taken by Gig Young, Sandra Church, and Nan Martin. Under the Yum Yum Tree had a respectable run of 173 performances on Broadway.

But if this is what the theater audience saw, how did it run so long?

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Bitter fruit, 12 luglio 2007
4/10
Author: moonspinner55 da redlands, ca

Lawrence Roman's popular stage farce comes to the screen seeming a bit undernourished, with everyone playing 'perky' to perfection but without benefit of any funny lines. With a whole apartment complex full of sexy, single gals, landlord Jack Lemmon becomes fixated on innocuous college girl Carol Lynley, who has just moved in with her boyfriend--a platonic arrangement that has Lemmon up in arms (and on the roof!). A shiny package with nothing inside, and Lemmon visibly strains to give the proceedings some bounce (tough to do since his wolfish character is thoroughly loathsome). The script, adapted by David Swift (who also directed), tries for snappy repartee, but since none of the characters are particularly sharp, the results here lack wit, spark, and imagination. *1/2 from ****

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ladies man runs an apartment complex, 10 aprile 1999
5/10
Author: helpless_dancer da Broken Bow, Oklahoma

A skirt chaser manages an apartment complex in which all the residents are beautiful women. He regularly wines and dines the ladies, and is a charming, although rascally fellow. He brings in a new tenant and begins his game on her, much to the annoyance of her boyfriend. Most of the film is spent with the landlord trying to get into the new tenant's pants, and her boyfriend making every effort to keep him out. Fairly funny spoof on the California lifestyle.

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Very goofy, very safe "sex comedy" with Lemmon going out on a limb., 31 luglio 2007
Author: Poseidon-3 da Cincinnati, OH

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Films certainly underwent some massive changes during the 60's. Compare the "chaste" sex comedy of this 1963 movie with the far more permissive and blatant movies of the latter part of the decade. Lemmon plays a relentless, lascivious skirt-chaser who runs an apartment complex called Centaur Apartments. Renting only to women, he says goodbye to former flame Adams and, before he can adjust to it, has rented the vacant apartment to her pert and very attractive niece Lynley. Lemmon can barely contain his glee as he sets out to carve yet another notch on his figurative bedpost, but he's unaware that Lynley has arranged for her boyfriend Jones to live with her (platonically) as well as part of an experimental, pre-marital arrangement! While Lynley and Jones wrestle with their hormones and strive to shield each other from temptation, Lemmon peers through windows and hangs from the roof when he isn't just trotting right through the front door with one of his many, many keys. The goings-on are observed by Lynde, as an envious gardener, and Coca, as his disapproving, cleaning-lady wife. Plenty of predictable misunderstandings and shenanigans take place with opposing sides either vigilantly defending Lynley's virginity or trying to get it taken away. All of it is handled with a soft touch through suggestiveness, innuendo or comedy. Lemmon tackles a very unusual role for him and is at least partially successful with it. He outrageously skulks around like Wile E. Coyote, with a battery of tricks up his sleeve, while appropriately cartoonish music plays. His antics eventually grow tiresome and he overacts with abandon, but it's still fascinating to see him in this light. Lynley was probably never more beautiful than in this film and, most of the time, she's quite appealing. She handles a stock "liberal, progressive virgin" role with skill. Jones (impossibly skinny, especially during the seduction scene towards the end) is charming and endearingly lunkheaded. He and Lynley make a very nice couple. Adams is saddled with a fretful role, but she looks pretty nice and manages a few nice moments. Handsome Lansing, as her new fiancé, has a very thankless part (one which was not in the original Broadway play on which this is based.) Coca is afforded several amusing bits as is Lynde, but Lynde was capable of far more hilarious screen activity than he's allowed to show here. Some of the material was just a tad obvious and tired, even for 1963. The film would have benefited well from a little bit of pruning in the redundant dialogue and more lengthy sequences. Still, it's a very colorful, silly, wacky romp that, if nothing else, makes for a fascinating time capsule of what filmmakers of the era thought (or perhaps wanted audiences to think) was the right way for people to behave. The sets are quite amazing, actually, though patently artificial-looking at all times. The opening credits for the film are really bizarre with a big fake tree hovering over two dancers as James Darren croons the title song. It's amazing how similar Darren sounds to the much later Harry Connick Jr. Incidentally, among Lynley's belongings in the apartment is a Darren LP! Bixby appears briefly as a potential male tenant, given the brush-off by Lemmon. A few years later, Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young and Harold Gould would film a pilot movie intended to set this up as a series, but it didn't come to fruition.

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a delicious sexual frolic for Jack Lemmon fans, 12 gennaio 2004
10/10
Author: fairwaters da midwest US

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.

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Mysoginistic claptrap, 7 gennaio 2009
1/10
Author: Damfino1895 da Pembrokeshire, Wales

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I really like Jack Lemmon, he has appeared in so many great movies during his career, but, what the heck induced him to do this total stinker of a movie.

I watched this movie in growing disbelief at what is a teenage boy's fantasy of being a rich man doing nothing worthwhile with his life owning a apartment block full of gorgeous young women wearing next to nothing and having free rein to do what he likes because he is their landlord.

What possessed Jack Lemmon to take on the role of a disgusting lecherous, moral free man who is planning to seduce (rape more like) a young virgin who lives in his apartment block. The story is so full of plot holes, why didn't anyone one report him to the police? Beats me! Anyway, I failed to make it to the end as when I heard Irene's speech about the man and the woman's role in a marriage I nearly choked on my cup of tea, only a man with a superiority complex over women could have written that baloney.

Completely humour free and a waste of two hours of my life. I think I'd better watch Some Like It Hot or The Odd Couple again to erase Lemmmon's Hogan out of my conscience.

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Very painful to watch, when it's not boring., 29 luglio 2008
1/10
Author: bdornon2 da United States

Jack Lemmon and Carol Linley deserve much better than this horrid garbage. Where do I begin? The music by DeVol underscores the lechery of the script, with little flourishes on the "Charge!" theme every time one of the males attempts to seduce a female. Ick. Jack Lemmon's machine gun delivery does speed up the film, but it's wearying. At 32, Dean Jones is a little too old for the college sap part: My attention wandered between his toupeé and Edie Adams' hair helmet. And Carol Linley, whose adorable figure is usually completely obscured by lousy costumes, manages to look perky and sweet despite the stupidity of her role. You should avoid this one; it's pure Junior High School boy material.

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Not Lemmon's Best Film But He's Still Very Good, 24 luglio 2008
10/10
Author: MissSugarKane da United Kingdom

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UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE (1963) is not one of Jack Lemmon's best films. And even Jack knew this. He detested making this film but he had no choice but to star in it. However, I still think that Jack was still his wonderful self.

His character (Mr) Hogan is a smooth-talking landlord, who only lends out his rooms of his posh apartment building to pretty young girls. Hogan's own apartment room is very welcoming, with everything he owns to be of the colour red: red jackets, red socks, red belts, red watches, red wallpaper, red bed covers, red cushions, etc.

One day, after being dumped by long-term suffering girlfriend Irene (Edie Adams), Hogan meets Irene's niece Robin (Carol Lynley), who moves into Irene's old room in Hogan's apartments. And Hogan instantly feels the urge to get with her.

It seems that Hogan has 'been' with every girl he has lent a room out as he seems very friendly with them all from day-to-day. But Robin has a boyfriend called Dave (Dean Jones) and when Hogan realises this, he still does his very best to sneak his way into Robin's flat. Robin and Dave are going through a period where they are not sleeping together, to see if they are a good couple and can live together without sex. Upon learning of this, Hogan manages to convince Dave to exercise more regularly to secretly get him tired and not in the mood for sex. And each time Dave is tired from exercising, Hogan does his best to get with Robin.

Carol Lynley is bright and fabulous as the pretty Robin and Dean Jones is fine as her suffering boyfriend Dave. Paul Lynde and Imogene Coca lend great supporting roles as the apartment cleaners who work for Hogan. But Jack Lemmon still manages to steal every scene he is in, despite in real life, not really caring for the film. Jack is as usual very witty with some great one-liners and facial expressions.

Jack Lemmon is a very fine comedian. We all know this because he gave legendary comedic performances in classic films such as SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959), BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958), OPERATION MAD BALL (1957), IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954) and THE APARTMENT (1960). And after having starring in so many hit comedies, Jack felt he should have been offered more decent comedy roles. He was happy to do 'light sex comedies', but at least not those sort of films that could have been branded 'cheap' at the same time.

I would recommend this film to fans of Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley and Paul Lynde the most.

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