ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

moonspinner55 Jerry Lewis co-wrote, produced, directed and stars in this feeble comedy about a nerdy bachelor, jilted by his lady-love, who has sworn off women; looking for work, he unknowingly takes a job in a boarding house full of nubile females. Paramount was very proud of their indoor set (three floors plus a working elevator) and, indeed, the fanciful way the movie is shot utilizing the space is very clever. However, the loosely-hinged plot of "The Ladies Man" is character-driven--and since there are no actual characters beyond Lewis' schnook, interest in the picture beyond the art direction and set decoration peaks early. Lewis the actor is his own worst enemy when he it comes to directing himself (when the women are introduced in a room-by-room montage, the sweeping-camera effect is ruined by constant cuts back to Jerry, sleeping with his rump in the air). George Raft turns up in a cameo as himself, dancing under a spotlight with Jerry in his arms, but Lewis shoots the sequence from so far away we can't tell who's on the dance-floor. A big blunder. *1/2 from ****

atlasmb I like Jerry Lewis and I think some of his work is really good. But when I sat down to watch this movie, I could not get past the first ten minutes or so.First of all, the production is really, really sloppy. The soundtrack has lapses when there is no sound. The voice track does not match the image. Pieces are edited in without matching the action.It's okay for Jerry to do his schtick, but the same thing over and over? His verbal nonsequitors get old quickly.The gags are sometimes plugged into the plot haphazardly.The resulting film is amateurish. But I do like some of Jerry's work.

Jackson Booth-Millard I really enjoyed the original version of The Nutty Professor by the star and director I first saw in The King of Comedy, and I was looking forward to another film of his, especially if it featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Basically Herbert H. Heebert (Jerry Lewis, also directing) is a young man has suffered severe heartbreak when his girlfriend has left him for someone else, and he becomes depressed swearing he will never want romance again. With nothing much else to hope for he finds himself a job working in a large house doing such things as cleaning, delivering mail and other general responsibilities, but he has no idea until they all come out that it is a womens' boarding house. The genteel house is run by Miss Helen N. Wellenmellon (Helen Traubel) who irritates him with the nickname "Herby", he is treated by all of the girls as a helpless servant, and of course his fear of women is getting him down, he tries to escape a couple of time. Young and beautiful Fay (Pat Stanley) is the only one he can really confide in, and she helps him to overcome his fear of women, and after many chaotic and slapstick disasters, including an important woman appearing on television in the house, the girls accept that he may want to leave, but of course Herbert cannot bring himself to do it, being in love as well. Also starring Kathleen Freeman as Katie, George Raft, Harry James, Marty Ingels, Buddy Lester as Willard C. Gainsborough, Hope Holiday as Miss Anxious and Lillian Briggs as Lillian. Lewis is fantastic being the highly nerdy, overly nervous and physically infantile character, it reminds you of the style Jim Carrey would bring in his career, the story is simple enough, but it is for the inventive jokes that the film works so well, all timed well, even the simplest thing like a broken bed is really funny, a great comedy classic. Very good!

Gary This is one of the worst comedies I have ever seen. (How in the world could anyone rave about this thing???) I like some Jerry Lewis comedies. Not having seen this one I looked forward to it. My family and I sat and starred at the screen and, I think, chuckled maybe three times.Spectacular sets, surreal scenes, and Jerry's exaggerated facial expressions do not a funny movie make. The opening scene in which Jerry graduates from junior college and is jilted by his supposed girl friend could have been gold in the hands of Chaplin or Keaton. Heck, even in a Martin & Lewis comedy it would have worked. But Jerry Lewis overacts beyond belief.The scenes involving "baby" are so forced and overdone that what laughs might be there are lost.