The Ladies Man (1961)

After finding his lady with another man, Jerry Lewis takes a job as an errand boy in a women-only boarding house. I’ve long suspected that Lewis’s comedy is generally not for me and this worked towards sealing the case. Mostly told in episodically, the humor is exceptionally rare and not worth the slog to find those points. The only thing going for the film, and it’s an extremely big thing, is the ginormous house setting. There is literally no fourth wall to be found and the action easily moves from one brightly colored room to another to another. It’s like a giant dollhouse and I find myself mesmerized by a still of it for a much longer time than the film held my attention.

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