Telly Savalas is the step father of a little girl who gets a little doll for a present. He doesn't like the little girl and he likes the doll even less because it costs money and because he's got so much anger bottled up inside him that he's like a pustule ready to pop.
"My name is Tiny Tina and I love you," the doll says when it's wound up, except that, when Tina and Telly are alone, the doll tells him all sorts of nasty things, amounting to a suggestion that he go perform an anatomical impossibility on himself.
Finally the little doll tells Savalas that she's going to kill him and Savalas goes berserk with outrage. He tries to squeeze the doll's head in a vice; he tries to saw it's head off. Nothing works. And in the end, the doll wins.
Telly Savalas always made a good heavy. Bald, greasy, and thick-lipped, he seemed made to be the murderer of a plastic doll. The other performers are ancillary. It's Tavalas's movie and he handles it with perfunctory skill. But suppose his step daughter had been a boy instead of a girl?
"My name is Tiny Tina and I love you," the doll says when it's wound up, except that, when Tina and Telly are alone, the doll tells him all sorts of nasty things, amounting to a suggestion that he go perform an anatomical impossibility on himself.
Finally the little doll tells Savalas that she's going to kill him and Savalas goes berserk with outrage. He tries to squeeze the doll's head in a vice; he tries to saw it's head off. Nothing works. And in the end, the doll wins.
Telly Savalas always made a good heavy. Bald, greasy, and thick-lipped, he seemed made to be the murderer of a plastic doll. The other performers are ancillary. It's Tavalas's movie and he handles it with perfunctory skill. But suppose his step daughter had been a boy instead of a girl?