The Errand Boy

The office jerk ( Original title: The Errand Boy ) is a slapstick comedy of Jerry Lewis 's 1961 In his third directorial Lewis takes a satirical look behind the scenes of the film business on the example of the fictional Paramutual Pictures..

Action

Mr. TP, President of Paramutual Pictures faces the problem that the studio despite the many successful films losses retract. To make the spendthrift or the studio locate, he decides to hire a spy who is discreetly look into the production buildings. His choice falls on the inexperienced Morty S. Tashman Billposters who is just trying to stick on a poster for the new Jerry Lewis movie.

Morty is set as an office boy and so can move around on the studio lot, leaving behind a trail of destruction. He even meets the actors of the TV series Bonanza and lands on a film premiere, where he becomes the companion of a starlet.

As Morty is finally to be fired, the charge of Paramutal Pictures must but realize that he 's a strange natural talent, and so Morty is the new star comedian of the studio. The film ends with the Star Morty an even ungeschickteren Billposters (also played by Jerry Lewis) encounters.

Reviews

" The grotesque story of a small office employee who is involuntarily to the comic actor in Hollywood. Jerry Lewis second directorial effort * made ​​fun of extensively the operation of the American dream factory while delivering an idiosyncratic variation of the " From rags to riches" theme. "

* In fact, it is Lewis's third directorial effort.

This and That

In a famous scene Jerry Lewis plays the title Blues in Hoss ' Flat Count Basie in a pantomime the CEO during a fictional Supervisory Board meeting.

In the original version is in a scene, the voice of the well-known in the U.S. synchronous speaker of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, Jim Backus listen.

1961 in film Screenplay Film score Walter Scharf Mime artist
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