Paramount Presents: The Nutty Professor [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

Director: Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis

Overview

One of Jerry Lewis' finest comedies, The Nutty Professor tells the touching tale of a bumbling dweeb of an inventor who creates a formula that turns him into suave lady-killer Buddy Love (who seems to be a less-than-kind caricature of Lewis' long-time professional partner Dean Martin, though Lewis has always denied this). Unfortunately, despite all his newfound charm, Lewis is still unable to win the heart of the one woman he really loves and so must rethink his strategy. A highlight is the bit he does with Buddy Lester, "Alaskan Polar Bear Heater."

Product Details

Release Date:	05/30/2023
UPC:	0191329245965
Original Release:	1963
Source:	Paramount
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	8,661

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jerry Lewis	Professor Julius Kelp/Buddy Love/Baby Kelp,Boy
Stella Stevens	Stella Purdy,Purple Pit Customer
Del Moore	Dr. Hamius R. Warfield
Kathleen Freeman	Millie Lemmon
Howard Morris	Mr. Kelp
Elvira Allman	Mother Kelp,Mother Kelp
Milton Frome	Dr. Levey
Buddy Lester	Bartender
Med Flory	Football Player
Skip Ward	Football Player
Norman Alden	Football Player
Marvin Kaplan	English Boy
David Landfield	College Student
Celeste Yarnall	College Student
Francine York	College Student
Julie Parrish	College Student
Henry Gibson	College Student
Dave Willock	Bartender
Doodles Weaver	Rube
Mushy Callahan	Cab Driver
Gavin Gordon	Salesman Clothier
Joe Forte	Faculty Member,College Faculty Member
Terry Higgins	Cigarette Girl
Murray Alper	Judo Instructor
Les Brown Jr.	Student at Senior Prom
Art Gilmore	Narrator
Stuart Holmes	Faculty Member at Senior Prom
Richard Kiel	Bodybuilder at Gym
Forbes Murray	Faculty Member at Senior Prom
Emil Richards	Musician - Percussionist
Roger Torrey	Football Player
Les Brown	Himself
Walter Scharf	Conductor,Composer

Technical Credits

Jerry Lewis

Bill Richmond

Jerry Lewis	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Ernest D. Glucksman	Producer
Paul K. Lerpae	Special Effects
Bill Richmond	Screenwriter
Bill Wistrom	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

You can fact-check a legacy, but you can’t fact-check a legend. So, while the critical record books regard the considerable Jerry Lewis oeuvre dismissively -- the French like him, goes the cliché -- the viewer is left to wonder: Why was Lewis such a star? All the answer anyone needs can be found in his masterwork, The Nutty Professor (Docteur Jerry et Mister Love, to its most ardent fans). At No. 99, it just made the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest films of all time. Lewis stars as Professor Kelp (the model for Professor Frink on The Simpsons). Accident-prone, socially awkward, and repressed, Kelp creates a formula that hideously unleashes his lounge-lizard alter ego, the supremely arrogant Buddy Love, who wows the kids at the Purple Pit night spot ("one of the great swingers of all time") and romances student Stella Purdy (the luscious Stella Stevens). While Eddie Murphy played Love for laughs in his more mean-spirited remake, Lewis has nothing to Hyde as the monstrous Buddy ("Here you are, baby," he romances Stella. "Take this, wipe the lipstick off, slide over here next to me, and let's get started"). This special edition boasts a pristine transfer that does justice to the hallucinatory color design. Lewis's informal commentary with Steve Lawrence is welcome but something of a missed opportunity (he does not address long-held speculations that Buddy was his malevolent take on former partner Dean Martin), and a few of the bloopers seem to show Lewis getting his Love on with crew members. If you're going to own one Jerry Lewis film, The Nutty Professor makes the grade.