It was time. Time to end the partnership. As this film shows, writers couldn't come up with anything very different for the boys to do. Unfortunately, this wasn't a very good film to go out with.
So what's wrong with it? 1. Why is Jerry singing so much????? 2. Why is a big, dumb dog such an important character in the film? 3. Were all those slinky models all over really beautiful...even in 1956? 4. Pat Crowley was a pleasant actress. Did someone actually think she could sing? 5. Couldn't they find stunt men that weren't so obviously NOT Dean and Jerry? Dean does what Dean's supposed to do here, but -- at least in the first half of the script -- appears to be a "letch". Although, that's less disturbing than the glimpse we finally get of Jerry Lewis in puberty. It's not a pretty picture for either. Dean has one really good song in the film, which he shares with Crowley -- "It Looks Like Love". The other tunes are okay, but not as good as one might expect from Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. Ad mentioned, Pat Crowley was a pleasant actress...of course, maybe that's not saying a lot. And Anita Ekberg has a sort of extended cameo as Jerry's lust interest.
Much of the film is a sort of road picture, but in my view they were traveling down the wrong road here. There is some good scenery pics (e.g., Santa Fe and the Grand Canyon), but of course, Dean and Jerry weren't there.
No, it was time for it all to end.
So what's wrong with it? 1. Why is Jerry singing so much????? 2. Why is a big, dumb dog such an important character in the film? 3. Were all those slinky models all over really beautiful...even in 1956? 4. Pat Crowley was a pleasant actress. Did someone actually think she could sing? 5. Couldn't they find stunt men that weren't so obviously NOT Dean and Jerry? Dean does what Dean's supposed to do here, but -- at least in the first half of the script -- appears to be a "letch". Although, that's less disturbing than the glimpse we finally get of Jerry Lewis in puberty. It's not a pretty picture for either. Dean has one really good song in the film, which he shares with Crowley -- "It Looks Like Love". The other tunes are okay, but not as good as one might expect from Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. Ad mentioned, Pat Crowley was a pleasant actress...of course, maybe that's not saying a lot. And Anita Ekberg has a sort of extended cameo as Jerry's lust interest.
Much of the film is a sort of road picture, but in my view they were traveling down the wrong road here. There is some good scenery pics (e.g., Santa Fe and the Grand Canyon), but of course, Dean and Jerry weren't there.
No, it was time for it all to end.