Toy Tiger (1956)
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Synopsis of Toy Tiger
Toy Tiger was a remake of the 1938 Deanna Durbin film Mad About Music. The adolescent girl of the original becomes a preteen boy in the remake, played with an excess of the cutes by Tim Hovey. A student in a private school, Hovey brags to his classmates about the accomplishments of his father. Actually the boy's dad has been dead for years, thus he's up against it when challenged to produce his fictional papa. Jeff Chandler, businessman friend of Hovey's widowed mother (Laraine Day), is coerced into posing as the boy's father. The "see it coming" ending was at least compensated for in Mad About Music by Deanna Durbin's singing. The banality of Toy Tiger is made bearable only by the gritty performance of Jeff Chandler, who lets us know that he knows he's better than his material. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Toy Tiger
- Jeff Chandler - Rick Todd
- Tim Hovey - Timmie Harkinson
- David Janssen - Larry Tripps
- Butch Bernard - "Owly" Kimmel
- Jacqueline De Wit - Edna
- Robert Anderson - State Trooper
- Laraine Day - Gwen Taylor
- Cecil Kellaway - James Fusenot
- Judson Pratt - Mike Wyman
- Brad Morrow - Freddy Doobin
- Mary Field - Miss Elsie
- Richard Haydn - John Fusenot
- Director(s):
- Jerry Hopper
- Writer(s):
- Ted Sherdeman
- Producer(s):
- Howard Christie
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