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Director:
Frank Tashlin
Writers:
Harry Tugend (story)
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Release Date:
28 November 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Norman Phiffier works as a store clerk in a large department store. Clumsy and inept, he can't do anything right. Boy are they in trouble! full summary | add synopsis
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Clumsy errand boy tries to make good only to make matters worse! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jerry Lewis ... Norman Phiffier

Jill St. John ... Barbara Tuttle
Ray Walston ... Mr. Quimby
John McGiver ... Mr. John P. Tuttle

Agnes Moorehead ... Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle
Francesca Bellini ... Shirley Lott
Peggy Mondo ... Lady wrestler
Nancy Kulp ... Emily Rothgraber
John Abbott ... Roberts
Isobel Elsom ... Hazel, a Dowager
Kathleen Freeman ... Mrs. Glucksman
Fritz Feld ... Irving Cahastrophe, the Gourmet Manager
Milton Frome ... Francois, the Driver
Mary Treen ... Mattress Customer
Dick Wessel ... Traffic cop (as Richard Wessel)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:U | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Watch carefully as Jerry Lewis mimes typing a letter to the accompaniment of Leroy Anderson's rapid-fire orchestral piece "The Typewriter." Lewis messes up twice, and reacts to his mistakes both times, but keeps going. Apparently, the spontaneity of the performance was more important to Lewis and director Frank Tashlin than an error-free take. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Catalina Caper (#3.4)" (1990) more
Soundtrack:
The Typewriter more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Clumsy errand boy tries to make good only to make matters worse!, 8 March 2001

I saw this movie at a Sunday matinee in 1963. The movie was so funny that the mere memory of that movie was enough to get me laughing. And I got sent to the principal's office as a result. So you can say that Jerry Lewis got me in trouble in school!

Jerry Lewis is an incompetant errand boy who is engaged to the store owner's daughter. But to get him out of the daughter's life, the store owner turns the screws on the engagement by assigning him the worst jobs. The store owner then moves him from one department to another, leaving massive chaos and destruction everywhere he goes.

The results are hilarious enough. But the aftermath of his time in the appliance department, alone, is worth watching the movie alone. It left me laughing so hard that I had stomach cramps!

I saw the movie again many years later and it was second childhood all over again.

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