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Director: Jerry Lewis
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From Time Out Film Guide
Surreal off-the-wall masterpiece, with Lewis again playing 7-stone cretin, this time a campus chemistry professor who woos his dream girl by inventing a magic potion that turns him (on and off) into a he-man of the Dean Martin school (hip, brylcreemed, offensive). The Technicolor blazes and swirls with manic energy, while the Jekyll-and-Hyde plot hustles its way through a minefield of gags, and sneers eloquently at the joys of the New America (a popular off-limits bar called The Purple Pit). Parody and nostalgia: pure alchemy.Author: CA
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- richard said...
- Posted on Jan 15 2011 15:03 His finest comedy he produced in his career. I saw this when I was 9 years old and though I am not a real Jerry Lewis Fan, this was his best work of art. It contained a nice assortment of comedy gags and Jekyll-Hyde plot that mixes the comedy and story line with lessons in ourselves in accepting our personality of who we are not what we would like to be.
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Cast & crew
Director: Jerry Lewis
Producer: Ernest D Glucksman
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory, Norman Alden, Howard Morris, Elvia Allman, Henry Gibson full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 107 mins
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