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Boeing Boeing [VHS]

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When the opening credits run, and the supporting female cast members `measurements' are shown beneath their names, you have no doubt you're in the 60's, bedroom farce, defined. In a roll reversal of sorts Jerry Lewis plays straight man to Tony Curtis this time around.

Bernie Lawrence (Curtis) is an American newspaper man stationed in Paris, the man for whom there is never too many airline hostesses, just too little time. His delicately balanced, and timed to the minute, 4-way love life comes totally unwound when old pal Robert Reed (Lewis) arrives for an unexpected stay.

Cliché after cliché, time stamped in most every shot, Boeing Boeing is a tribute to a different type of filmmaking than we see today, a different morality, a different approach to comedy.

Wonderful Paris sights are an added treat. Recommended.

I first watched this movie in Iran when I was no more than 6 years old! Since then, I have searched far and wide for this amazing and hilarious comedy only to find it here. This movie will have you rolling on the floor with clever slapstick and double entendres. It is a superb addition to any video library!

I consider this movie one of the Greatest Comedy in Cinema History! TCurtis, JLewis and the less known but great actress Thelma Ritter simply put a Roller-Coaster movie that keeps you glued and amused from start till the end. Not many other comedies can do the same. And Jerry Lewis part is not diminished at all by the others ones. (I'm a real Jerry Lewis fan, but I don't think that Tony Curtis and Thelma Ritter are nobody in Cinema History, simply look back.....) All 3 are Simply Great, the Movie is Simply unmissible and any Superlative Word available in the Vocabulary can freely be used!

I went to see Boeing Boeing as a theatre production and I was knocked off my feet. I recalled seeing the movie in the 60's, and had forgotten how funny it was. I am so disappointed that it is NOT offered in DVD form. To me it is a comedy classic. Thelma Ritter as the maid is fantastic.

The movie suffers from being one of the entries where Jerry Lewis tries to me a comedic leading man. Having said that...he does that pretty well...but still goes into some light "shtick" - Jerry Lewis style. Funny madcap plot keeps moving along. One of many un-remembered comedies from both the 60's and Jerry.

Boy is this movie ever exciting. I am happy to say that I love Jerry Lewis, and Tony Curtis. This is one of my favorite movies because Jerry Lewis is not a total idiot and acts stupid all the way through. Usually he is making faces and talking stupid with silly vocies.He is funny at first but really after a while it gets old and annoying. This movies shows a different Jerry Lewis. He plays a Old buddy of tony Curtis's who happens ro have 3 pehoncas and they are all flight stewardess who attnd differnt airlines. When Jerry moves to Paris and moves in with Tony for a while. Only after the first day Tony's world comes crashing down. Jerry has to play cat and mouse. He can't remeber which one he suppose to take to dinner.As Tony and Jerry try their best to keep them apart.When one women walks in they change their mind about dinner. Or the girls get all in a tizy because they want to know why their is that kind of food. Jerry ends up falling for one of the girls. But Tony and Jerry are hilarious. Tony has to keep talking and switching rooms to keep the girls apart. While Jerry changes the pictures and the clothes in the gilrs rooms. Jerry actully acts ,like a human in this. Jerry is very funny. And Tony is even better they make you laugh untill your side hurts. But after seeing this movie for over the 12th time it is not funny and gets old. This movie gets funnier by the minute literally every time the door opens!

An important piece of product information is missing here: the VHS tape is copy-protected, so that it is impossible to make a perfectly legal private DVD copy. So forget this tape and wait for the DVD.

Now that is on Broadway, do you think it will be released on DVD? I loved this movie when I was young and love this movie now. It is a good comedy but you must understand the era it was made in. I am awaiting the DVD release.

I love Jerry Lewis and I can't understand why such a great man would make such a movie.They should've called it "Boring Boring".That's my opinion.