Retrospektive 2013
Sailor Beware
Hal Walker
USA 1952
108 min
V'13
Nightclub singer Al and the full-time hypochondriac Melvin (Martin and Lewis) land against their will, or contrary to their expectations, in the Navy. The would-be elite squad serves as picturesque background for melting songs and perfect slapstick, which culminates in a, choreographed with Chaplin-like elegance, boxing fight against a rabid heavyweight. Like Cassius Clay some years later said: "Float like a butterfly sting, like a bee!"; at least the first part handles Lewis with perfection.
Credits
- Jerry Lewis
- Dean Martin
- Leif Erickson
- Corinne Calvet - Yvonne
- Marion Marshall
- Robert Strauss
- Martin Rackin
- J.B. Allardice
- nach dem gleichnamigen Bühnenstück von K. Nicholson
- C. Robinson
- Daniel L. Fapp
- Harry Mills
- Warren Low
- Leigh Harline
- Joseph J. Lilley
- Hal Pereira
- Henry Bumstead
- Edith Head
- Hal B. Wallis
Paramount Pictures, Wallis-Hazen
35 mm
bw
