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6.5/10
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Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
George Winslow
- Richard Stilton
- (as George 'Foghorn' Winslow')
Nancy Abbate
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
Rosemarie Ace
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jane Adrian
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Charlotte Alpert
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to TMC, Jerry Lewis saw Shirley MacLaine on stage in "The Pajama Game", where she was understudy for Carol Haney, and convinced the producer to use her in this film, thereby launching her career.
- GoofsWhen Rick is painting the lips on the billboard, he looks down to answer his boss, and when he looks back the lips are fully painted.
- Quotes
Mrs. Muldoon: Remember, any more noise and you're going to be using the curb for a pillow.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Colgate Comedy Hour: Episode #6.11 (1955)
- SoundtracksArtists and Models
Lyrics by Jack Brooks
Music by Harry Warren
Sung over the credits by Dean Martin
Reprised during the finale by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Featured review
Very funny, if you can stand Jerry Lewis
I had never seen a Jerry Lewis vehicle before this one (not counting Scorsese's King of Comedy), and I was annoyed as hell for the first fifteen minutes. I even considered walking out, that's how irate I was getting at Lewis' mugging. But then there was a scene in which he was hilarious, so I hung onto it a bit. And it got funnier and funnier. Jerry Lewis isn't getting a clean bill of health from me; he still annoyed me once in a while. But in at least an equal amount of scenes, and probably a bit more, he was very funny. He and Dean Martin play "roommates" who met each other way back when they were Boy Scouts, sleep in separate twin beds in the same room, take baths with the door open, and at one point talk about getting a divorce. At one point the semi-retarded Lewis (and he admits as much himself) says to Martin: "I can't keep my dickie down, Ricky." Um, he's putting on a tuxedo I think. Similarly, Dorothy Malone lives in the apartment directly above them, unmarried with thick, black glasses and earning a good living on her own. She spends her time dressing the barely adult Shirley MacLaine, who has a cute little butch cut, up as the Bat Lady. The homosexual content seems to me almost too obvious to be meant. It's usually much subtler in Hollywood movies of the era. Then again, it's impossible to miss it, even you're a 1950s housewife. Eventually, the two gay couples meet and change partners, Martin getting Malone and Lewis MacLaine. MacLaine, in her second (or maybe third) role, is probably the film's standout, but Eddie Mayehoff, playing a comic book publisher who wants ever more violent comic books to sell, lands the highest percentage of the laughs. Eva Gabor has a decent part as a Soviet spy (a Cold War plotline appears out of thin air in the latter half of the film), and Anita Ekberg, later to co-star in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, also has a tiny role as a model. The non-Lewis related comedy is frivolous but excellent. The film also contains several great musical numbers. Dean Martin at one point starts dancing with a little girl on the street in a scene stolen from An American in Paris. The girl, though, is an excellent back-up singer and the song itself - I believe it's called "The Lucky Song" - is quite entertaining. 8/10.
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- zetes
- Sep 14, 2002
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- Budget
- $1,701,083 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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