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    Delicate Delinquent, The (1957)

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    After 16 films with actor/singer Dean Martin, comedian Joseph Levitch, alias Jerry Lewis (then aged 30), thankfully decided to go it alone.

    New York policeman Mike Damon (Darren McGavin) tries to befriend eccentric youth Sidney L Pythias (Lewis) who’s in the company of thugs. Much impressed, Sidney trains as a cop himself but has a hard time proving himself as a rookie.

     

    Lewis is unusually restrained, the story logical and the laughs quite frequent. Don McGuire’s direction is generally effective, making it one of the better films by Lewis, whose indulgence has wrecked many a movie.

    After Hollywood or Bust (1956), this was to have been the next vehicle for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin but Dino did not want to be seen on screen in a police uniform and refused to do the film. So this film became Lewis’ first solo effort.

    Sidney L Pythias
    Jerry Lewis
    Mike Damon
    Darren McGavin
    Martha Henshaw
    Martha Hyer
    Monk
    Robert Ivers
    Police Captain Riley
    Horace McMahon
    Artie
    Richard Bakalyan
    Harry
    Joe Corey
    Patricia
    Mary Webster
    Mr Herman
    Milton Frome
    Mr Crow
    Jefferson Searles

    Director
    Don McGuire

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