Their names are Bill and Ted, but that's where the excellence of their adventure ends in this, the eighth of seventeen films the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made in the 1950s. Ostensibly set in the 1930s during the sunset of vaudeville, it is pure corn but for the beauty and voice of Polly Bergen, who suffers through the nonsense with style. Of the film's seven songs, "A Girl Named Mary and a Boy Named Bill" is the best, only because Bergen and Martin actually come close to sounding like vaudevillians.
Review of The Stooge
