Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Ladies Man - 1961 *** 1/2



Is it very disturbing to have a bit of a thing for Jerry Lewis? He's funny here, not nearly as funny as in 'The Nutty Professor', but he still brings the laughs in. He takes a job in a ladies only hotel as a general odd job man after his girlfriend leaves him for someone else and finds himself right in the centre of all feminine talk and thought which suits him fine as he has no interest in women anymore except as guests. Lewis is completely over the top as usual, but there is a laugh out loud scene involving him and George Raft where they ballroom dance together after Lewis assures Raft that he couldn't possibly be Raft because he can't flick his coin in the same way as he did in 'Scarface'.

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