The Errand Boy
Fractures Hollywood with a Million Howls!
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Produced by Jerry Lewis Productions, Paramount Pictures
A high-energy slapstick comedy about a bumbling spy whose incompetence creates escalating chaos across a Hollywood studio lot.
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Essence
Ensemble
Jerry Lewis
Morty S. Tashman
Brian Donlevy
Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
Howard McNear
Dexter Sneak
Dick Wesson
The A.D.
Kathleen Freeman
Mrs. Helen Paramutual
Robert Ivers
Young NY Director Who Argues with T.P.
Pat Dahl
Miss Carson
Renée Taylor
Miss Giles
Rita Hayes
Singer Who Dubs Davitt
Stanley Adams
Grumpy
Isobel Elsom
Irma Paramutual
Sig Ruman
Baron Elston Carteblanche
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