Starring: Vince Barnett, Susan Bay, Charlie Callas, Frank De Vol, Walter Kray Average Rating: Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Color, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Number of Items: 1 Release Date: March 24, 1998 Running Time: 107 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1967
Fine parody of thriller movies Gerald Clamson ( Jerry Lewis ) is a bank clerk accidentally involved in a smuggled diamonds intrigue while he's spending his typical holidays in San Diego's bay, and the wrong man hunted at the same time by the mob and the police. " The big mouth ", the eighth movie of Lewis as filmmaker, is a wild satire of gangsters movies and Hitchcock thriller routines directed by Lewis with biting comicity; mocking and surreal visual invention and his habitual gag timing carefulness. Buddy Lester, Susan Bay and Harold J. Stone joins Jerry who plays here two characters: Gerald Clamson and Syd Valentine, a dangerous gangster who is confused with our "hero".
Another excellent movie waiting for its DVD edition.
Nice '60s feel...goofy All of Jerry's 1960's films have been released on DVD except this one and "Who's Minding the Store". Wonder what the criteria is on when to release them...looks like the VHS is out of print too...hmmmm.
The Big Yawn Dreadful, unwatchable schmaltz about innocent accountant getting tangled up in fishing lines and Mafia goombas. All the mug shots of goofy faces and typical late `60s jazzy score can't save this one.
Overlooked Jerry One of Jerry's most underappreciated films, fast paced and with a terrific supporting cast. Even those who don't appreciate Lewis may like this one; he's less the wild, silly type and more level headed and capable, but this new persona does not interfere with the comedy. He's still funny.
Co-written, Produced, Directed By And Starring Jerry Lewis! Jerry Lewis stars as Gerald Clamson, a chief bank auditor who is on vacation in San Diego. While fishing on the beach, he happens to land a frogman who looks just like him! The dying frogman, who was shot, hands Lewis a map to a stash of smuggled diamonds, and instructs him to look for a hotel with a yardarm. This is somewhat reminiscent of the opening to the movie "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," a great film in which Jerry Lewis had a memorable cameo. The gang he double-crossed shoots the frogman from aboard their yacht, and then swim ashore looking for the fisherman. Jerry flees and later stumbles upon the hotel with the yardarm, the Hilton Inn. In his rush to get there he knocks over Suzie, played by Susan Bay. This is Susan's movie debut, as well as her only movie role to date! She would figure prominently in the film as Jerry's love interest. Jerry also manages to accidentally injure the front desk clerk, who refuses to rent him a room. Determined to get into the hotel, Jerry later returns in disguise, combing his hair down, wearing a set of false buck teeth, reading glasses and an old tweed suit, and speaking in a funny voice. This character is EXTREMELY reminiscent of the title character he played in "The Nutty Professor."
The bulk of the film finds Jerry either in disguise or as himself, trying to stay one step ahead of the gang that wants to kill him, a different mob that wants to buy the smuggled diamonds from him, an Oriental outfit that wants the diamonds to finance their fake pearl business, and the hotel staff who want to throw him out. Especially noteworthy is the hilarious, over-the-top performance of Charlie Callas as one of the gang members. The big mouth in the title of the movie is an ironic reference to Jerry's failed attempts to convince anybody that his outrageous tale is true, that it's just a case of mistaken identity, and that he really doesn't know where the diamonds are. The climax of the film takes place at SeaWorld on Mission Bay, including a scene where Jerry is disguised as a Kabuki dancer! All the movie's characters corner him on the roof of a theater, but Susan Bay manages to arrive with a helicopter to rescue Jerry at the last minute. This film is one of Jerry's funniest, with nonstop action, many plot twists and turns, outrageous antics, and great on location scenery.
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