The Disorderly Orderly

Director: Frank Tashlin Frank Tashlin

Overview

Newly hired to work at a hospital since his father is a doctor, an orderly (Jerry Lewis) causes havoc with patients and staff alike. Sammy Davis, Jr. sang the title theme.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/30/2021
UPC:	0032429355379
Original Release:	1964
Rating:	NR
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	41,628

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jerry Lewis	Jerome Littlefield
Susan Oliver	Susan Andrews
Glenda Farrell	Dr. Jean Howard
Everett Sloane	Tuffington
Karen Sharpe	Julie Blair
Kathleen Freeman	Maggie Higgins
Del Moore	Dr. Davenport
Alice Pearce	Talkative Patient
Jack E. Leonard	Fat Jack
Barbara Nichols	Actress
Richard Deacon	Mr. Courtney
Danny Costello	Ambulance Driver
Michael Ross	Ambulance Driver
Herbie Faye	Mrs. Welles
Frank Scannell	Mr. McCaby
Mike Mazurki	Driver
Murray Alper	Driver
William Wellman Jr.	Driver
Benny Rubin	Waiter (uncredited)
Milton Frome	Board Member
John Macchia	Orderly
Frank Alesia	un interne
Allyson Ames	une infirmière
Carol Andreson	une infirmière
Robert Donner	un interne
Muriel Landers	Millicent
Frankie Darro	Actor
Paul Frees	Actor
Ethelreda Leopold	Actor
Joseph J. Lilley	Composer

Technical Credits

Frank Tashlin

Norm Liebmann

Frank Tashlin	Director,Screenwriter
Farciot Edouart	Special Effects
John P. Fulton	Special Effects
Paul Jones	Producer
Paul K. Lerpae	Special Effects
Jerry Lewis	Executive Producer
Norm Liebmann	Screenwriter
Don Merritt	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

For Jerry Lewis fans, the DVD release of The Disorderly Orderly is just what the doctor ordered. Jerry stars as Jerome Littlefield, a hapless orderly in a sanitarium. A failed medical student, Jerome psychosomatically experiences the patients' symptoms and otherwise creates havoc. This was Lewis's last film with former Warner Bros. animator Frank Tashlin, who provided this human cartoon with some of his best sight gags. At one point, a snail overtakes a crawling, straitjacketed Jerome. In another, Jerome is nearly buried under an avalanche after a patient asks him to adjust the "snow" on her television screen. A jarring subplot involving an embittered, suicidal woman (Susan Oliver) on whom Jerome has had a lifelong crush is at odds with the Mack Sennett slapstick tone of the rest of the film. But Jerry will have kids in stitches.