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Medical student Jerome Littlefield works as an orderly at a private clinic where he creates havoc due to his ineptitude.Medical student Jerome Littlefield works as an orderly at a private clinic where he creates havoc due to his ineptitude.Medical student Jerome Littlefield works as an orderly at a private clinic where he creates havoc due to his ineptitude.
Frank J. Scannell
- Milton M. Mealy
- (as Frank Scannell)
Frank Alesia
- Intern
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaIn the travel agency's window is a sign that reads, "TWA movie-in-flight: Jerry Lewis in 'The Disorderly Orderly'".
- GoofsWhen Jerome and Julie go out to dinner for spaghetti, he has a plate and she does not. When he finishes twirling the spaghetti into a big pile, her plate "magically" appears.
- Quotes
Julie Blair: Can you drive an ambulance?
Nurse Higgins: Well, in the Army I drove a tank...
- ConnectionsFeatured in North (1994)
- SoundtracksThe Disorderly Orderly
by Earl Shuman and Leon Carr
Sung by Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis thru the courtesy of Reprise Records
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Jerry Lewis in a sanitarium...and he's not a patient?
Medical school flunky Jerry Lewis, who turns to jelly when patients talk about their grisly ailments, finds himself employed as an orderly at a private hospital/sanitarium/rest home (the script can't decide which it is). There's a drill sergeant head nurse who shouts at Jerry, a resident manager who dotes on Jerry, a corporation head who wants to fire Jerry, and a student nurse who wants to marry Jerry. In between all this, Lewis crosses his eyes and knocks things over. Some of this slapstick might be funnier if director Frank Tashlin knew how to follow through on a gag--and had possibly found a way to reel Lewis in. The glossy production is bright, the supporting players are good, and there's a funny, frantic chase through the streets and into a supermarket at the finale. Tashlin's outrageous sense of satire is occasionally clever, but it can't really bolster the dim-wittedness of Lewis' geek act, nor the cartoony screwball bits (as when Lewis cracks open a bad TV set and creates a snowy blizzard in a hospital room). Lewis-addicts are obviously the film's prime audience; for everyone else, a few scattered laughs amongst the high-decibel shouting and mugging. ** from ****
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- Also known as
- Zaljubljeni bolnicar
- Filming locations
- Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA(Whitestone Sanitarium and Hospital)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Disorderly Orderly (1964) officially released in India in English?
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