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 enlarge | Actors: Duke Art Jr., Eddie Barton, Larry Best, Howard Brooks, Bob Clayton
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 31106
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 71
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D059244D
ISBN: 0792193199
UPC: 097360592443
EAN: 9780792193197
ASIN: B0002NY8RQ
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1960
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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Condition: Factory sealed (complete with security strip along top). Brand new, with no hole punches or notches in the case. Unlike those from many other sellers, your item will be carefully packed for shipping to prevent damage in transit.
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 The Bellboy January 15, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a hilarious movie about a few months in the life of a young quiet bellboy who does not say much at all. It has many different situations that the poor guy goes through, like giving the guests a car engine from their "trunk". This movie will have you rolling on the floor laughing at all the silly things that go on.
what can i say but one of the best March 11, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
i think that anyone would love this movie it is so funny and i will watch it over and over again
The greatest movie of all time. January 6, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Chaplin. Tati. Lewis.
Keaton. Allen. Lewis.
Sandler. Schneider. Lewis.
Jerry Lewis is the last word in movie comedy. And The Bellboy, in all its black and white and wordless glory, is the best of them all.
Even better than Hardly Working.
Jerry , the amazing one-man band January 4, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Defined in the opening credits as the visual diary of several weeks in the life of a bellboy this experimental comic film, acclaimed by Chaplin himself, was the debut of Jerry Lewis into film direction. Also produced, written and performed by Lewis and shot in black and white the film is a collection of stylished and imaginative sight-gags, that sometimes borde on the surreal humour of cartoon and where the camerawork and the soundtrack have often so much protagonism as the the actors, focused in a common stage: the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. But " The bellboy " is also an intelligent and sensitive homage to slapstick ( and in a special way to the person of his beloved friend Stan Laurel ) and the world of the clowns. Lewis figures here in two different roles: as Jerry himself ( in what's a funny parody of his day-life as hollywood celebrity ) and as the talkativeness and sometimes too much diligent bellboy of the title.
"The bellboy" satisfies intelligently its declared purpose, this is to enjoy during all its 78 minutes, but this chain of comic catastrophies also contains an interesting intention,and suggested by Stanley in the only sentence he pronounces in all the movie: that disasters can proceed from an excessive proffesional fervour or from the "incapacity" to revolt against a capricious authority.
Widescreen edition. Extras: deleted scenes, bluffs and original trailer.
 Maybe the French are onto something here October 29, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The French love of Jerry Lewis has been the subject of lots of jokes and even more head scratching. How can this annoying, whinny, unfunny man-child be held in such high regard by a people who have given us the cinema of Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard? "The Bellboy" may provide some insight to this enigma.
First off, Lewis doesn't speak (not much, anyway) so that grating voice isn't a factor. Secondly, there's no plot--just sight gags. Flimsy, unlikely plots kill so many comedies, so it's a good thing Lewis avoided one here. And, finally, there's very little of Lewis's silly mugging, he seems pretty much unaffected by the events crashing around him and approaches each new situation with an almost Buster Keaton-like stoicism. So we're left with a comedy that often dips into surreal territory and in many ways (including its hotel setting) recalls the work of the great French writer/director/comedian Jacques Tati.
If you despise the goofy Jerry Lewis of the Martin and Lewis years or his subsequent solo work, you'll be pleasantly surprised by "The Bellboy."
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