Jerry Lewis (Peter), Connie Stevens (Eileen), Robert Morley (Quonset), Dennis Weaver (Hoffman), Howard Morris (Schmidlap), Brian Keith (General Hallenby), Dick Shawn (Igor), Anita Ekberg (Anna), William O'Connell (Ponsonby), Bobo Lewis (Esther Davenport), Sig Ruman (Russian delegate), Milton Frome (American delegate), Alex D'Arcy (Deuce), Linda Harrison (Linda), James Brolin (Ted), Michael Jackson (TV announcer). Narrated by Colonel "Shorty" Powers.
Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS. Written for the screen by William Bowers and Laslo Vadnay. Costumes designed by Moss Mabry. Director of photography: William H. Clothier. Art direction: Jack Martin Smith and Hilyard Brown. Set decorations: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss. Unit production manager: Nathan R. Barragar. Assistant director: Joseph E. Rickards. Film editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Special photographic effects: L. B. Abbott, Emil Kosa, Jr and Howard Lydecker. Make-up by Ben Nye. Hair styles by Margaret Donovan. Music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin. Title song (Gary Lewis and the Playboys) by Hal Winn (lyrics), Lalo Schifrin (music). Co- ordinator for Jerry Lewis Productions: Joe E. Stabile. Sound recording: Al Overton, David Dockendorf. Westrex Sound System. A CinemaScope picture in DeLuxe Color. Producer: Malcolm Stuart. Copyright 26 October 1966 by Jerry Lewis Productions/Coldwater Productions/Way Out Company.
Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. New York opening at neighborhood cinemas: 26 October 1966. U.S. release: 26 October 1966. U.K. release: 1 October 1967. 9,432 feet. 105 minutes. For U.S. release, the film was cut to 101 minutes. The full-length version was shown in England and probably Australia. Sydney opening at the Esquire (or Town).
SYNOPSIS: 20th Century-Fox provides a new launching pad for Jerry Lewis in Way... Way Out, and literally sends him to the moon. In the film, a provocative satire on global politics, the space race and the battle of the sexes, Lewis portrays a weather astronaut stationed in space. It is a role which utilizes the full gamut of Lewis' comic talents and, with the current worldwide interest in interplanetary subjects, Way... Way Out shapes up as a film that will not only appeal to the ever growing audience of Jerry Lewis fans but to moviegoers of all types seeking modern first-rate entertainment fun. Co-starring with Lewis are vivacious Connie Stevens, fast rising young star Dick Shawn, the well-known British actor Robert Morley who was recently seen in "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" and the voluptuous Anita Ekberg. Under the direction of Gordon Douglas who guided the successful "Rio Conchos" and the soon to be released "Stagecoach", "Way... Way Out" is currently being filmed on location at the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston and at the NASA facilities in Cape Kennedy and Huntsville, Ala. Malcolm Stuart is the producer. — Fox publicity.
NOTES: Final film appearance of one of our favorite character actors, Sig Rumann, who died of a heart attack in 1967 at the age of 83. Gary Lewis is Jerry's son.
COMMENT: For the second time in a movie, Lewis uses his natural voice, but his vehicle here is not as successful as "Boeing Boeing". Lewis, mind you, is very good and he makes his lines seem much funnier than they are, but the film is let down by some atrocious over-acting by Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris and by a script that sags badly once the moon is reached.
Director Gordon Douglas has a fine time with the sets.
I think this was Sig Rumann's final film. He is very appropriately cast as one of the Russian delegates but, for some unexplained reason, his fine voice has been deleted from the sound-track and some colorless nonentity's dubbed in.
The special photographic effects are extremely well done. The sets look very attractive and the whole film has been produced on an exceptionally lavish scale.
Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS. Written for the screen by William Bowers and Laslo Vadnay. Costumes designed by Moss Mabry. Director of photography: William H. Clothier. Art direction: Jack Martin Smith and Hilyard Brown. Set decorations: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss. Unit production manager: Nathan R. Barragar. Assistant director: Joseph E. Rickards. Film editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Special photographic effects: L. B. Abbott, Emil Kosa, Jr and Howard Lydecker. Make-up by Ben Nye. Hair styles by Margaret Donovan. Music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin. Title song (Gary Lewis and the Playboys) by Hal Winn (lyrics), Lalo Schifrin (music). Co- ordinator for Jerry Lewis Productions: Joe E. Stabile. Sound recording: Al Overton, David Dockendorf. Westrex Sound System. A CinemaScope picture in DeLuxe Color. Producer: Malcolm Stuart. Copyright 26 October 1966 by Jerry Lewis Productions/Coldwater Productions/Way Out Company.
Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. New York opening at neighborhood cinemas: 26 October 1966. U.S. release: 26 October 1966. U.K. release: 1 October 1967. 9,432 feet. 105 minutes. For U.S. release, the film was cut to 101 minutes. The full-length version was shown in England and probably Australia. Sydney opening at the Esquire (or Town).
SYNOPSIS: 20th Century-Fox provides a new launching pad for Jerry Lewis in Way... Way Out, and literally sends him to the moon. In the film, a provocative satire on global politics, the space race and the battle of the sexes, Lewis portrays a weather astronaut stationed in space. It is a role which utilizes the full gamut of Lewis' comic talents and, with the current worldwide interest in interplanetary subjects, Way... Way Out shapes up as a film that will not only appeal to the ever growing audience of Jerry Lewis fans but to moviegoers of all types seeking modern first-rate entertainment fun. Co-starring with Lewis are vivacious Connie Stevens, fast rising young star Dick Shawn, the well-known British actor Robert Morley who was recently seen in "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" and the voluptuous Anita Ekberg. Under the direction of Gordon Douglas who guided the successful "Rio Conchos" and the soon to be released "Stagecoach", "Way... Way Out" is currently being filmed on location at the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston and at the NASA facilities in Cape Kennedy and Huntsville, Ala. Malcolm Stuart is the producer. — Fox publicity.
NOTES: Final film appearance of one of our favorite character actors, Sig Rumann, who died of a heart attack in 1967 at the age of 83. Gary Lewis is Jerry's son.
COMMENT: For the second time in a movie, Lewis uses his natural voice, but his vehicle here is not as successful as "Boeing Boeing". Lewis, mind you, is very good and he makes his lines seem much funnier than they are, but the film is let down by some atrocious over-acting by Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris and by a script that sags badly once the moon is reached.
Director Gordon Douglas has a fine time with the sets.
I think this was Sig Rumann's final film. He is very appropriately cast as one of the Russian delegates but, for some unexplained reason, his fine voice has been deleted from the sound-track and some colorless nonentity's dubbed in.
The special photographic effects are extremely well done. The sets look very attractive and the whole film has been produced on an exceptionally lavish scale.