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6.5/10   586 votes
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Director:
Frank Tashlin
Writer:
Erna Lazarus (writer)
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Release Date:
6 December 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
A COAST TO COAST FUN TOOT! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A very funny satire on Hollywood by Frank Tashlin more (8 total)

Cast

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Dean Martin ... Steve Wiley

Jerry Lewis ... Malcolm Smith
Pat Crowley ... Terry Roberts
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom ... Bookie Benny (as Maxie Rosenbloom)

Anita Ekberg ... Actress Anita
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beginner's Luck (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Boulder Dam, Nevada, USA more
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When they arrive in Hollywood, Anita Ekberg is starring in a movie where she plays Napoleon's lover. That same year, Ekberg was featured in War and Peace (1956), another Paramount release, which included Napoleon as a character. more
Quotes:
Old Lady: [getting into the car] You're a dear sweet young man.
[seeing the dog]
Old Lady: Oh my, does he bite?
Steve Wiley: [laconically] Only me lady.
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Movie Connections:
References The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) more
Soundtrack:
The Wild and Wooly West more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
A very funny satire on Hollywood by Frank Tashlin, 26 December 2002
Author: Kalaman from Ottawa

"Hollywood or Bust" was the last Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin musical comedies and a very good one. Although it is not as bracingly innovative and riotous as Tashlin's "Artists and Models", I kept laughing throughout.

Some hilarious and enjoyable scenes come to mind: The opening moments in the movie theater where Lewis is ruining a woman's hair with popcorn; the rousing musical number "A Day in the Country" (Martin and Lewis in a car) which is Tashlin's homage to the "Beyond the Blue Horizon" number in Lubitsch's 1930 musical "Monte Carlo"; and there is Lewis' imitation of Rudolph Valentino's "Blood and the Sand".

Sure it can be silly and puerile at times, but it's a lot of fun.

Worth seeing.

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