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Title: Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jerry Lewis | ... | Wilbur Swain / Caleb Swain | |
| Madeline Kahn | ... | Eliza Swain / Lutetia Swain | |
| Marty Feldman | ... | Sylvester | |
| John Abbott | ... | Dr. Frankenstein | |
| Jim Backus | ... | President of the U.S. | |
| Samuel Fuller | ... | Colonel Sharp | |
| Merv Griffin | ... | Anchorman | |
| Pat Morita | ... | Ah Fong, the Chinese Ambassador | |
| Virginia Graham | ... | Gossip Specialist | |
| Ben Frank | ... | Quentin, the Handyman | |
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Cheire Harris | ... | Maria, the Maid (as Cherie Harris) |
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Robert Hackman | ... | Study Hall Supervisor |
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Eugene Choy | ... | Lum Fung |
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Ken Johnson | ... | Horace |
| Peter Kwong | ... | Chinese Astronaut | |
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Caleb Swain and his wife Lutetia are a rich couple deemed to be the most beautiful of all the beautiful people by the press. This changes when Lutetia gives birth to oversize, deformed twins named Wilbur and Eliza. Unknown to them, the twins are really an alien brother-and-sister team implanted in Lutetia to solve the world's problems. When they are apart they are not much smarter than a potted plant, but together they are an intellectual force to be reckoned with. Their closeness is put to the test when a series of events threatens to keep the twins apart. Mixed in with all this is a miniaturized Chinese ambassador who needs the twins' help to make a deal for the sale of gravity. Written by Kyle Palkowski.
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1982 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Lyrics by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (as Kurt Vonnegut)
Music by Michel Legrand
Sung by Madeline Kahn
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The original 1982 cut of the movie featured a score by Michel Legrand. When the movie was re-edited and subsequently re-released in 1984, it was replaced with a more science-fiction-laced score by Morton Stevens (of Hawaii Five-O (1968) fame). A soundtrack LP was released containing on one side the score by Stevens and on the other side highlights of the score by Legrand. See more »Goofs
The boom mic is visible in the scene where the staff at the mansion is attempting to cheer up Eliza after Wilbur is taken to military school (on full frame 1.33:1 prints; the prints cropped to 1.85.1 mask the boom out). See more »Alternate Versions
The original 1982 cut of the movie features the song "Two Heads Are Better Than One" during the opening credits at the nursery, as well as over the end credits. See more »Soundtracks
Lonesome No MoreLyrics by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (as Kurt Vonnegut)
Music by Michel Legrand
Sung by Madeline Kahn
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With huge talents such as Jerry Lewis & Madeline Kahn I thought this movie was going to be gas, sitting in my favorite chair ready to laugh...NEVER DID. Movie made me ill, The directors & producers of this film should be arrested for letting this "VOMIT" on the screen.
The concept of having Jerry Lewis as a space alien could have been funny (See Visit to a Small Planet) which wasn't that funny either, but it wasn't crap like this. I've seen bad movies, like "Manos Hands of Fate", "Gigli", "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and many other terrible films, but with the exception of "Gigli", this is the worst movie I have ever seen, I truly had to take Maalox after this one. How in the Hell did they get The KING of Comedy, Jerry Lewis, and one of the funniest ladies to ever live Madeline Kahn to star in this bag of Dung?
They must have owed favors to the producers or something, because this movie really bit the big one.
Pardon My French, but It Sucked!