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Funny Bones, starring Lee Evans, Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt

Funny Bones

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Editorial review of Funny Bones, courtesy of Amazon.com

Funny Bones, directed by Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song), is a weird but intriguing comedy with a particularly dark edge. Oliver Platt plays a would-be comedian, the son of a major comedy star (Jerry Lewis); Dad’s reputation even overshadows his son’s Las Vegas debut. After that flop the son tries to go back to his roots and heads for his father’s launch pad in Blackpool, England. There, he meets his previously unknown half-brother (Lee Evans), a bizarre comedy savant who teaches him a thing or two about taking risks to get laughs, and discovers a secret about how his father got started. Platt is likably lost and Lewis is perfectly overbearing, but the real find here is Evans, a rubber-faced, protean comic with always-surprising material. –Marshall Fine

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My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson, Diana Lynn

My Friend Irma Goes West

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My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson, Diana Lynn

buy-from-amazon The team of Martin & Lewis (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, of course) return to the screen in the sequel to their first film, My Friend Irma.This time, the ditzy blonde Irma (Marie Wilson) leads her roommate Jane Stacy (played by Diana Lynn), Jane’s fiancee Steve (Dean Martin), and her own boyfriend Seymour (Jerry Lewis) out west to try and break into the movies.  There’s a kidnapping plot, but the highlights of the film are Martin and Lewis recreating bits of their nightclub act, such as The Vagabond Song.

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Scared Stiff (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizbeth Scott, Carmen Miranda

Scared Stiff

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Scared Stiff (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizbeth Scott, Carmen Miranda

buy-from-amazon Scared Stiff is a remake of the Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard comedy, The Ghost Breakers, with Dean Martin as Larry Todd, a singer who is falsely accused of murder (“You murdered a perfect stranger?” “Nobody’s perfect.”). On the run from the law, he’s accompanied by his friend Myron M. Mertz (Jerry Lewis).  On the lam, they run into Mary Caroll (Lizabeth Scott), who has inherited a haunted castle from her father, where the three of them go.  Once there the “ghost” makes his appearance, Dean sings, Jerry does slapstick — including an imitation of their co-star, Carmen Miranda.

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Money from Home (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley

Money from Home

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Synopsis of Money from Home (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley

Synopsis of Money from Home

In Money from Home, Gambler Honey Talk Nelson needs money to pay off his losses – quickly. He enlists the aid of his cousin Virgil, a veterinary assistant, to fix a horse race. Things become complicated when Nelson falls in love with the horse’s owner and Virgil falls in love with a veterinarian.

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Hobson's Choice (1954) starring Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie, John Mills

Hobson’s Choice

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Hobson’s Choice (1954) starring Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie, John Mills

Hobson’s Choice is a very enjoyable comedy. A successful businessman and widower doesn’t want his daughters to marry …. Since he would have to pay their dowry. But the oldest daughter is both intelligent and determined …

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Sailor Beware (1952) starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Sailor Beware

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Sailor Beware – Martin & Lewis chase pretty girls, blow up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every sailor gag ever thought of, singing

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