Way... Way Out (1966)

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Writers:

William Bowers (writer) &
László Vadnay (writer)

Release Date:

26 October 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Once Upon A Time In 1989, The Americans And The Russian Went To The Moon

Plot:

The Americans and Russians each have a two-person base on the Moon The Americans have had to keep replacing...

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Marriage Of Convenience | Fight | Faked Pregnancy | Low Gravity

Cast

Jerry Lewis	...	Pete Mattemore
Connie Stevens	...	Eileen Forbes
Robert Morley	...	Harold Quonset
Dennis Weaver	...	Hoffman
Howard Morris	...	Schmidlap
Brian Keith	...	Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
Dick Shawn	...	Igor Valkleinokov
Anita Ekberg	...	Anna Soblova
William O'Connell	...	Ponsonby
Bobo Lewis	...	Esther Davenport
Sig Ruman	...	Russian Delegate
Milton Frome	...	American Delegate
Alexander D'Arcy	...	Deuce Hawkins (as Alex D'Arcy)
Linda Harrison	...	Peggy
James Brolin	...	Ted Robertson

Runtime:

USA:101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11

Company:

Coldwater

Trivia:

Title song "Way...way out" performed by Jerry Lewis' son Gary Lewis (and his band The Playboys.)

Quotes:

[First lines]
Narrator: This is Colonel John "Shorty" Powers in Lunar Launch Control. This story takes place near the turn of the century -not the last century, the *next* century. Nothing very much has happened since the 1960's: There as still a United Nations, and peace in the world... or at least what we have come to accept as "peace".

Movie Connections:

Features Frankenstein (1931)

Soundtrack:

Way... Way Out

Moderately amusing for about half its length...

In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force wants to send a newlywed couple into outer space to live on the moon in a space-station for a year; after the first couple drops out, alternate Jerry Lewis is chosen, but he's a bachelor...enter Connie Stevens as a prospective bride. Good-looking Jerry Lewis vehicle is amusingly naive about the future, and yet frustratingly silly regarding sexual matters (Walt Disney's "Moon Pilot" from 1961 was actually much friskier!). Lewis is more restrained than usual, Stevens (despite an odd, helium-sounding speaking voice) is effervescent, and the art direction and decoration is a '60s dream (complete with clear plastic inflatable furniture!). But the script completely peters out once the couple gets launched, and a couple of dreary sub-plots involving bachelors-in-space Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris and sexy Russian cosmonaut Anita Ekberg fail to rouse any laughs. *1/2 from ****