The booby on duty
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The booby on duty |
| Original title | The Disorderly Orderly |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Tashlin |
| script | Frank Tashlin Ed Haas Norm Liebmann |
| production | Paul Jones |
| music | Joseph J. Lilley |
| camera | W. Wallace Kelley |
| cut | John Woodcock |
| occupation | |
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The booby on duty (original title The Disorderly Orderly , dt. About the messy nurse ) is an American comedy film from 1964. Frank Tashlin directed, the main roles were played by Jerry Lewis , Karen Sharpe and Susan Oliver . The producer was Paul Jones for the production company Paramount Pictures . The main location of the film was the California city of Beverly Hills .
The film first aired on US television on December 16, 1964. It was first broadcast in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 12, 1965.
action
The good-natured Jerome Littlefield would like to be like his father once a successful doctor. But since he feels the sufferings and ailments of the patients on his own body when these are expressed, he cannot even study. So he is content with a job as a nurse at Whitestone Sanatorium , a hospital with a mental hospital. Because of his clumsiness he is not very popular; especially not with Nurse Higgins, who would like to strangle him, and Mr. Tuffington, the owner of the hospital. Chief Physician Dr. Davenport, however, holds Jerome in high regard as she was once engaged to his father and she almost became his mother.
One day, young Susan is admitted to the Whitestone after attempting suicide. In her suicide note, she wrote that there was no love in her life. Jerome immediately falls in love with her due to his own disturbance and sends her a love letter and flowers. Susan, however, disgusted his innuendos. Jerome's secret admirer, the nurse Julie, also feels abandoned and wants to leave. However, Jerome convinces her to stay and tells her that he loves her too and that the Susan thing was just a kind gesture.
When the hospital owner, Mr. Tuffington, tries to kick Susan out for not being able to pay for her stay, Jerome takes action and pushes overtime in order to be able to continue paying for Susan's treatment and stay. After a few months of hard work, Jerome makes a mistake and drops a bucket of paint on Mr. Tuffington. Jerome is released. Dr. Davenport is fired for standing up for him. Shortly afterwards, Tuffington breaks his leg. When Susan learns what Jerome did for her, she stops him before he leaves the hospital and kisses him. Julie, who is watching everything, is offended and drives away. But Jerome realizes that the kiss meant nothing to him and realizes that he has been healed and can now become a doctor. When he tries to tell Julie about it, she is already on the way to the airport. Jerome steals the ambulance that the injured Tuffington is in and drives after her. Dr. Davenport and Sister Higgins follow in a second ambulance. When Tuffington is thrown out while driving and rolls away on his stretcher, Jerome runs after him while his ambulance rolls uncontrollably down a hill. Julie, who was watching everything from the bus, gets into the other ambulance. Both ambulances crash into Jerome in a supermarket parking lot. He and Julie hug each other happily. Overjoyed to be able to become a doctor and that he and Dr. Davenport have got their jobs back, he proposes marriage to her, which she immediately accepts. In the final scene, Mr. Tuffington crashes into the sea with his stretcher.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the production as an "episodic slapstick comedy about Jerry Lewis and his contortion and grimace comics, enriched with the usual staff and patient caricatures." In addition, the "foolish stupidities and countless grotesque situations" often deteriorate “Cheap cramp, while some lively swipes at hypochondriac tricks and quirks amuse just as much as the luxurious colourfulness of Tashlin's staging style.” The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “Jerry Lewis' latest work [...] is under Frank Tashlin's direction again as a good American grotesque comedy. "
Other countries
| country | title | First shipment |
|---|---|---|
| United States | The Disorderly Orderly (Original Title) | December 16, 1964 |
| Sweden | En sån jäkel till doctor | February 1, 1965 |
| Federal Republic of Germany , Austria | The booby on duty | February 12, 1965 |
| Finland | Jerry kipusiskona | February 19, 1965 |
| France | Jerry chez les cinoques | March 3, 1965 |
| United Kingdom | The Disorderly Orderly | October 11, 1965 |
| Denmark | Hjælp, Jerry kommer! | December 10, 1965 |
| Turkey | Jerry Lewis gönüllü doctor | 1967 |
| Hungary | Szabálytalan szabályos | June 30, 1977 |
Web links
- The Disorderly Orderly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The booby on duty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 96/1965