The Nutty Professor (1963)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Jerry Lewis

Writers: Jerry Lewis, Bill Richmond

Cinematographer: W. Wallace Kelley

Composer: Walter Scharf

Cast: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, Elvia Allman

Lewis’s comic take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde - in which Lewis’s timid, geeky science lecturer invents a potion that changes him into a brash, obnoxious, testosterone-dripping buffoon… whom everyone loves!?! – proves to be a gaudy, manic, delightfully satirical, and often quite hilarious look at contemporary social values. Iain.Stott