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Director:
Writers:
Don McGuire (screenplay)
Don McGuire (story)
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Release Date:
22 January 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Tame a lion. Get shot out of a cannon. Wash an elephant. Jerrico will do anything to become a circus clown.
Plot:
Another movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dean Martin ... Peter 'Pete' Nelson

Jerry Lewis ... Jerome F. 'Jerry' Hotchkiss
Joanne Dru ... Jill Brent

Zsa Zsa Gabor ... Saadia
Wallace Ford ... Sam Morley
Sig Ruman ... Colonel Fritz Schlitz, Lion Tamer
Gene Sheldon ... Puffo the Clown
Nick Cravat ... Timmy

Elsa Lanchester ... The Bearded Lady
Douglas Fowley ... Circus Payroll Man
Sue Casey ... Circus Snake Charmer
Mary Orozco ... Circus Fat Lady (as Mary L. Orozco)
Frederick E. Wolfe ... Circus Giant
Philip Van Zandt ... Shell Game Operator (as Phil Van Zandt)
Ralph Peters ... Circus Chef
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Big Top (USA) (working title)
Jerrico, the Wonder Clown
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Recording)

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Featured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Hey, Punchinello more

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The beginning of the end, 12 May 2002
Author: lzf0 from United States

Dean and Jerry are more relaxed in this film than in previous efforts. The comedy is also milder. It is also the first time Jerry indulges in his sentimental clown shtick. Hello, telethon Jerry! Dean has absolutely nothing to do in the film. He plays his usual heel character, but there is absolutely no depth to it. And where are the musical numbers? Only the woefully unfunny "That's My Boy" has less in the way of music! Dean and Jerry get to do one new number, "Puncinello", and Dean sings the standard "It's a Big, Wide Wonderful World" to a bunch of animals! (Hugh Shannon, the wonderful jazz singer-pianist who is most identified with this song, must have had a good laugh from Dean's version.) Dean has no ballads and hardly any screen time with his leading lady, Joanne Dru. It's all about Jerry, not silly, lovable Jerry, but a telethon Jerry, trying to become a clown. Actually, the film is quite amusing and heartwarming, but it's not Martin and Lewis. I do not know if Twenty-first Century youngsters would find this amusing, but I did when I was a kid. It is more endearing than "That's My Boy" and most of the solo Lewis films. It may be a bit slow for today's kids.

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