The Toy

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

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  Richard Donner

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  Richard Pryor
  Jack Brown
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  Jackie Gleason
  Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
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  Ned Beatty
  Sydney Morehouse
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  Scott Schwartz
  Eric Bates
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  Teresa Ganzel
  Fancy Bates
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  Wilfrid Hyde-White
  Barkley
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  Tony King
  Clifford
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  Annazette Chase
  Angela
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  Don Hood
  O'Brien
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  Karen Leslie-Lyttle
  Fraulein
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  Virginia Capers
  Ruby Simpson
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  Steve Kahan
  State Trooper
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  B.J. Hopper
  Geffran
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  Ray Spruell
  Senator Newcomb
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  Stocker Fontelieu
  District Attorney Russell
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  Robert Adams
  Store Executive