WHOS MINDING THE STORE SIGNAL ONE BLU RAY REVIEW

Frank Tashlin would have laughed at me for my dogged reviewing of Signal One’s Blu Ray output. Though great as it is, the problem and it is a problem, is that it flip flops from great film to great film and often handled very badly. WHOS MINDING THE STORE, a Jerry Lewis vehicle that is richer than a Texas vein of oil, leaves you in no doubt they know the films that need to be seen. But, and this is the problem, they use a weak transfer, have no real extra content and decide to hamper the film that Tashlin was very proud of, with a dull poster. The story, well Jill St. John, the beauty who bedded Bond (as some say), is Barbara. She loves Norman (Lewis), a man that has no people skills and the mind of a chimp. They met after he handled her poodle and not, as her mother Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) thinks. You see, she is a wealthy woman and worth more than a million. Now mummy dearest wants him gone and sends Norman to work a series of increasingly humiliating jobs at the family’s department store. Aided by dubious lush Mr. Quimby (Ray Walston), she is determined to win but will love win the day?

With nothing else to say, I will quote the imdb page notes.

“The Typewriter” sequence became a regular part of Lewis’ live stage repertoire and he performed it frequently when hosting The Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

 

 

 

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