The Bellboy

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Mike N @artcarney55 Jan 1, 2026 A masterpiece. Great directorial debut See more London B. @movienerd8 Dec 18, 2025 A very good and innovative Jerry Lewis comedy that makes an impressive directorial debut for its time. I watched this a week ago at midnight and if I didn’t stay up that night I would’ve still had the same dreamlike experience as this film. Alongside its obvious rejection of narrative structure, the film is also seen ahead of its time by showing an actor playing two characters at once which was popularized by Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece war-comedy Dr. Strangelove (1964). See more Eric P @RT06161622 Jul 14, 2022 While it is appreciated that Jerry Lewis' The Bellboy was not only pioneering the use of a video assist system but also payed a homage to iconic silent film stars. At times, the films gags were pretty humorous. Other than that, The Bellboy has nothing to offer but bad qualities such as bad editing, bad writing, and no plot (even though it was acknowledged). But the film also acknowledged it did have a moral. That moral was "You'll never know the next guy's story...unless you ask". See more Jun 6, 2021 Jerry Lewis in his directorial debut and it is a masterpiece. Gorgeous, scattered, brilliant, abstract and funny, each scene is so beautifully composed you'll understand why the French understood him. This is the MoMA of comedy. See more Simon T @MovieTart Mar 1, 2019 Jerry Lewis proves yet again that he has no aptitude for comedy. This woeful string of unfunny skits set in a gigantic Miami hotel tries so hard to emulate the great screen clowns - even tiresomely introducing a Stan Laurel lookalike - and the more it tries, the more it fails, because Lewis labours every gag and indulges himself throughout. Painful stuff. See more Thomas M @TMProofreader Jan 27, 2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more Read all reviews

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