Onde Fica a Guerra? (1970)

Brendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (Registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits ... See full summary »

Director:

Jerry Lewis

Writers:

Gerald Gardner (screenplay), Dee Caruso (screenplay)

Stars:

Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, John Wood

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jerry Lewis	...	Brendan Byers III / Field Marshal Erik Kesselring
Jan Murray	...	Sid Hackle
John Wood	...	Finkel
Steve Franken	...	Peter Bland
Willie Davis	...	Lincoln
Dack Rambo	...	Terry Love
Robert Middleton	...	Colonico
Kaye Ballard	...	Senora Messina
Harold J. Stone	...	General Buck
Paul Winchell	...	Schroeder
Sidney Miller	...	Hitler
Joe Besser	...	Dock Master
Gary Crosby	...	SS Guard
Danny Dayton	...	Man in Car
Kathleen Freeman	...	Bland's Mother

Storyline

Brendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (Registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits volunteers among his employees for a privately-funded mission in the Italian front of the war. Byers impersonate the German general Eric Kesselring, with the plan to order German troops to retreat and give way to advancing Allied forces. Unfortunately for Byers, the impersonation comes with complication. He has to deal with the real general's Italian mistress, while the German authorities are investigating Kesselring's involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Plot Keywords:

slapstick comedy | 1940s | italian campaign | italy | southern europe | 

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Taglines:

You vill see "Which Way to the Front?" ... und you vill laugh!

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Genres:

Comedy | War

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Final film of Neil Hamilton.

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Goofs

The opening credits say JERRY LEWIS AS "WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?"

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Quotes

Adolf Hitler: Did you know that last year more people died from cigarette smoking than from bombings?
Brendan Byers III: What will you do about that, Führer?
Adolf Hitler: Increase the bombings!

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Connections

Spoofs Doze Indomáveis Patifes (1967)

User Reviews

Comedy genius

For some inexplicable reason, Jerry's movies often seemed to come in for diatribes from certain quarters although they were rarely box office disappointments. It's one of life's great mysteries to me because his films have always had a 'feel good' factor about them for me. But this film is not only not bad: it's an exceedingly good and clever comedy. To those who may be tickled by 'modern' crude or cruel humour, don't see this film: There's nothing in it like that and you'll be wasting your time.

I've only seen this film once on the television. I've waited ever since to see it again and that's been quite a few years. You'd think the idea of an arrogant millionaire businessman heading off to win the war against the Nazis with his own small private army of subservient employees would be boring wouldn't you? Well only Jerry Lewis would dare try such a plot for an out and out comedy and it works, I have to say, brilliantly.

I think that, as with 'The Nutty Professor' and most of his other films, this movie is testimony to his comic genius, both in concept and execution. I think Buddy Love might have said, "You know, true comedy can not only make a six year old hysterical, it'll do that for his Dad too." Maybe a few nutty Nazis generals with monocles and a limp would dislike this movie, honestly. If you only see one more comedy in your life, see this one. Be careful though, you might die laughing. And I'm not joking!

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 September 1970 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Onde Fica a Guerra?

Box Office

Gross USA:

$402,134

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Lewis Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1