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Rodney Amateau (story) and
David Davis (story) ...
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Release Date:
6 June 1969 (USA) more
Tagline:
Jerry has to get away from it all! Even if it means a $100,000 spree on credit cards!
Plot:
Man (Lewis) is told by his doctor (Lawford), and best friend, that he has a terminal illness. At his wife's urging... more | add synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jerry Lewis | ... | Peter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs |
 | Peter Lawford | ... | Dr. Scott Carter |
 | Anne Francis | ... | Nancy Ingersoll |
 | Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | ... | Perfecto (as Pedro Gonzales Gonzales) |
| Jimmy Miller | ... | Jimmy Ingersoll |
| Jennifer Edwards | ... | Jennifer Ingersoll |
| Eleanor Audley | ... | Mrs. Durham |
| Henry Corden | ... | Kenyon Hammercher |
 | Sylvia Lewis | ... | Karlotta Hammercher |
| Phillip Pine | ... | Head Surgeon |
| Felipe Turich | ... | Portuguese Mortician |
| Kathleen Freeman | ... | Mrs. Hardtack - Baby Sitter |
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Also Known As:
Kook's Town (USA) (working title)
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91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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The house set is the same used for "Bewitched" (1964). more
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Revealing mistakes: The sink can be seen to wiggle (obviously loose) moments before Peter pulls it up with the plunger. more
Quotes:
Dr. Scott Carter:
There's only one decent thing left for you to do: turn yourself in.
Peter Ingersoll:
Decent thing? That's insane!
Dr. Scott Carter:
I'll be behind you all the way.
Peter Ingersoll:
Oh, sure you will. A mile behind me.
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Referenced in I Walk the Line (1970) more
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If anybody is ever wondering why Jerry Lewis' film career stalled in the early 1970's one need only look at this fiasco. While the central plotline isn't particularly fresh the potential for comedy is there but the makers of this film never find it. The lowpoint in a film of many lows must be the wooden performance of Anne Francis, who perhaps thought she was still a mannequin from "The Twilight Zone".