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The Disorderly Orderly

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Jerry Lewis is Jerome Littlefield, an orderly at a mental institution who acts crazier than the patients. Since Frank Tashlin directed this movie, Jerry is free to concentrate solely on his performance, which he does to perfection. Once again Jerry is the lovable loser, who was thrown out of medical school because he felt the symptoms of every patient he diagnosed. This movie features a lot of great sight gags. Jerry fixes a television set in a patient's room that has poor reception, also known as snow. When he takes out the front of the TV, snow comes flying out of the set and soon fills the room! A patient is in a full body cast from head to toe, looking like a plastered mummy. Jerry accidentally knocks him over, the patient goes rolling down a hill and crashes into a tree. There's pieces of broken plaster everywhere, but no body! Jerry declares, "I lost a patient!" The movie concludes with one of the craziest chase scenes in movie history, as a wheeled stretcher with an injured man on it rolls out of the back of an ambulance and continues to roll down hills, while first one, then two ambulances chase him. This movie features more LPMs (laughs per minute) than most modern comedies, and is one of Jerry's funniest films.

I loved this when I was a kid and I'm glad to say I still do now at 42! This is one of Jerry Lewis's finest with some really clever visual gags and an inspired use of sound(look out for the apple scene.)Kathleen Freeman is also great as the long suffering head nurse.The whole cast is excellent really and Everett Sloane is on fine form as the very un-pc director of the hospital.
A great film and very nearly up there with Lewis's(not Eddie Murphy's!) The Nutty Professor.

Funny, funny, funny. Great family movie. Too bad they don't make them like this anylonger.

my whole family loves Lewis it isn"t very often that my family can watch a wholesome movie and actually laugh.

If you ever wanted to see Jerry Lewis as a medical orderly then this is your golden opportunity to laugh out loud in this! The ending is hysterical. Typical Jerry Lewis fare. I loved every minute of it!!!

This movie starts out kind of stupid, but about fifteen minutes into it you will be laughing on the floor. It as a great movie that the whole family can enjoy and will have you wanting to see other JL movies too!

I was born with a severe heart condition. In 1979, at age five, I had a brain abcess. In 1982 I had opened heart surgery. In 2004 I had a pacemaker implanter. This movie's medical humor is funny--and as you have read; I ought to know!

This is also one of the best romantic comedies I have seen (Jerry Lewis or otherwise). Believe it or not, it's a tearjerker.

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Get some pop corn and watch this movie, but, do not watch alone and remember it's a classic. A great family movie.
I had so much fun introducing my children to this wonderful Jerry Lewis classic. It's great to laugh with childlike enthusiasm and we all did.

We love movies with Jerry Lewis, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Etc! This is great clean family entertainment at its best.

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