Jerry Lewis

The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.

To impress a beautiful girl, Harold Kelp, the grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potion to transform his personality, gets his ...

Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps ...

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and ...

A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation ...

It will surprise few to discover that star of stage and screen Jerry Lewis has sought to amuse others since he was five years old. Since that ...

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and ...

An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a ...

An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel ...

Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from ...

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he ...

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can’t serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers ...

Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree–and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.

George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all ...

A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he ...

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she’s a psychiatrist who currently has three ...

A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl’s beloved bodyguard who practically ...

Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine ...

When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a ‘nobody’ to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man ...

Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that’s not exactly the perfect career choice when you’re hopelessly squeamish. ...

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn’t know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle ...

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde ...

Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery ...