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    Disorderly Orderly, The (1965)

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    Jerry Lewis stars as Jerome Littlefield, a male nurse in a private hospital who is always trying too hard – with the obvious comic results.

    Lewis’s comic genius is very much a matter of taste. In France he’s virtually canonised; elsewhere, though, he has admirers and detractors in equal parts. This – his 31st film – is exactly the type of movie that tends to infuriate both parties.

    It’s very, very funny, with a wonderful climactic chase and a particularly hysterical Lewis moment where Jerry has sympathy pains with the choleric Mrs Fuzzibee (Alice Pearce who played Lucy Shmeeler in On the Town).

    However, the film also contains some of the most melancholy and cloying sentiment in the whole of Lewis’s oeuvre.

    For once, director Frank Tashlin seems unable to control Jerry, which is not necessarily a bad thing, and the sight gags are tremendous.

    Jerome Littlefield
    Jerry Lewis
    Dr Jean Howard
    Glenda Farrell
    Mr Tuffington
    Everett Sloane
    Mrs Fuzzibee
    Alice Pearce
    Julie Blair
    Karen Sharpe
    Maggie Higgins
    Kathleen Freeman
    Dr Davenport
    Del Moore
    Susan Andrews
    Susan Oliver
    Fat Jack
    Jack E Leonard
    Mr Courtney
    Richard Deacon
    Mrs Welles
    Herbie Faye
    Mr McCaby
    Frank Scannell

    Director
    Frank Tashlin

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