The Bellboy

The Bellboy

It's a Series of Silly Sequences and One of Jerry's All-Time Great Comedy Performances!

Directed by Jerry Lewis

Produced by Jerry Lewis Productions, Paramount Pictures

196072 min6.2 / 10

A gleefully anarchic slapstick comedy built on physical gags and silent-film-style comedy, where chaos follows a hapless bellboy through a glamorous hotel.

Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Bellboy sad? No. Less sad than 97% of films.

  • Is The Bellboy easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 95% of films.

  • Is The Bellboy scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Does The Bellboy end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 81% of films.

  • Is The Bellboy violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

37/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

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Rarity19

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise70

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love30

How much audiences actually like it

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