The office idiot
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The office idiot |
| Original title | The Errand Boy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerry Lewis |
| script | Jerry Lewis , Bill Richmond |
| production | Ernest D. Gluckman , Arthur P. Schmidt |
| music | Louis Y. Brown , Walter Scharf , Bill Richmond, Jerry Lewis |
| camera | W. Wallace Kelley |
| cut | Stanley E. Johnson |
| occupation | |
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The Errand Boy (original title: The Errand Boy ) is a slapstick - comedy of Jerry Lewis from 1961. In his third directorial Lewis takes a satirical look behind the scenes of the film business by the example of the fictitious Paramutual Pictures .
action
Mr. TP, President of Paramutual Pictures, faces the problem that the studio is making losses despite the many successful films. In order to find the spendthrift (s) in the studio, he decides to hire a spy to look around the production buildings unobtrusively. His choice falls on the inexperienced poster sticker Morty S. Tashman, who is currently trying to stick a poster for the new Jerry Lewis film.
Morty is hired as an office messenger and can move around the studio grounds, leaving a trail of devastation. He even meets the actors of the television series Bonanza and ends up at a film premiere, where he becomes the companion of a starlet .
When Morty is about to be fired, the people in charge at Paramutal Pictures have to realize that he is a weird natural, and Morty becomes the studio's new star comedian . The film ends with star Morty driving past the actors and many other film people in a luxurious car, finally the car stops and he meets an even more clumsy poster sticker (also played by Jerry Lewis).
Reviews
“The grotesque story of a little office worker who involuntarily becomes a comedian in Hollywood. Jerry Lewis' second directorial work * extensively fakes the operation of the American dream factory and at the same time delivers an idiosyncratic variation on the "From dishwasher to millionaire" theme. "
* In fact, it is Lewis' third directorial work.
Trivia
In a famous scene, Jerry Lewis plays the company boss in a pantomime for Title Blues in Hoss' flat by Count Basie during a fictional board meeting.
In the original version, the voice of the US-famous voice actor for the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, Jim Backus , can be heard in one scene .
The former silent film star Snub Pollard can be seen in a small role (unnamed in the credits) . It was one of his last appearances as he passed away the following year.
Web links
- The Errand Boy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The office idiot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 15, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/name/nm0001471/#director1960