{"id":460,"date":"2008-01-24T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/460"},"modified":"2008-01-25T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:57:48","slug":"the-patsy-1964-jerry-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/460","title":{"rendered":"The Patsy (1964, Jerry Lewis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst JL movie I&#8217;ve seen so far.  I can&#8217;t believe this was the (directorial) follow-up to &#8220;Nutty Professor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is of course the title patsy.  A famous singer\/entertainer dies, and his handlers don&#8217;t know what to do with themselves.  They want to continue their partnership, keep doing what they were doing, but how can they without a star to support?  Enter clumsy bellboy Lewis.  His character is sweet but SUCH a loser that it&#8217;s impossible to suspend enough disbelief to believe that the handlers would unanimously adopt him instead of taking maybe an hour to look around, or more likely holding a casting call.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly ever funny, the romantic bit seems forced, movie&#8217;s sole reason to exist seems to be so Lewis could work with some high-class supporting actors, so here they are:<\/p>\n<p>Everett Sloane (Disorderly Orderly, The Enforcer, Citizen Kane)<br \/>\nPhil Harris (Anything Goes, The Jungle Book)<br \/>\nKeenan Wynn (Piranha, Laserblast, Point Blank, Parts: The Clonus Horror)<br \/>\nPeter Lorre (M, Maltese Falcon, Mad Love)<br \/>\nJohn Carradine (The Howling, Frankenstein Island, Red Zone Cuba)<\/p>\n<p>Ina Balin (The Projectionist 1971) is the girl, the heart of the picture, and Scatman Crothers gets one good scene.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry is called the &#8220;king of comedy&#8221; once, and Ed Sullivan refers to having Martin &#038; Lewis on the show before.<\/p>\n<p>a patsy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/patsy1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>L-R: Lorre, Wynn, Lewis, Carradine, Balin, Sloane, Harris<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/patsy2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>this was his final film:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/patsy3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>the mushy flashback scene:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/patsy4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>funny ending, dismantling the set:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/patsy5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Senses of Cinema calls it &#8220;a discourse on comedy&#8221; and points to the scene where Jerry almost but never quite breaks all the priceless vases as an example of defying comedic expectations.  See attached comment for a more thought-out opinion than mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst JL movie I&#8217;ve seen so far. I can&#8217;t believe this was the (directorial) follow-up to &#8220;Nutty Professor&#8221;. Lewis is of course the title patsy. A famous singer\/entertainer dies, and his handlers don&#8217;t know what to do with themselves. They want to continue their partnership, keep doing what they were doing, but how can they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,196],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-comedy","tag-jerry-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}