{"id":12258,"date":"2017-09-26T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:22:09","slug":"the-bellboy-1960-jerry-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12258","title":{"rendered":"The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial screening for Jerry Lewis.  I&#8217;d never seen this, didn&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s semi-plotless, casting a mute Jerry as one of many bellboys at a luxury hotel and throwing him into situations.  Apparently hastily written and shot in the Miami hotel where he was performing at the time.  And it shows&#8230; half the jokes are lazy or awful, though it&#8217;s short and overall pleasant enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/bellboy1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/bellboy2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also featuring Jerry as himself, Milton Berle as himself, both of them as lookalike bellboys, and Lewis&#8217;s future cowriter Bill Richmond as a fake Stan Laurel.  It&#8217;s a strange movie.  I feel bad having so little to say about it, but maybe you had to have suffered through the studio comedies of the 1940&#8217;s and 1950&#8217;s to appreciate its innovations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/bellboy3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial screening for Jerry Lewis. I&#8217;d never seen this, didn&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s semi-plotless, casting a mute Jerry as one of many bellboys at a luxury hotel and throwing him into situations. Apparently hastily written and shot in the Miami hotel where he was performing at the time. And it shows&#8230; half the jokes are lazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,1601,2034,2330,196,1212],"class_list":["post-12258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-doppelganger","tag-episodic","tag-florida","tag-jerry-lewis","tag-memorial-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12283,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}