The Disorderly Orderly

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Jerry Lewis, dressed in blue surgical scrubs and cap, stands with arms outstretched in a hospital room scene from The Disorderly Orderly (1964), with other staff and a patient's feet visible.

The Disorderly Orderly

film by Tashlin [1964]

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Frank Tashlin
Films of the 1960s
The Disorderly Orderly (1964), the last of the Tashlin-Lewis collaborations, was among their best and achieved cult status. Frenetic but also suspenseful and loaded with allusions to the films of Alfred Hitchcock—particularly Vertigo (1958)—it imagines Lewis as a failed medical student who takes a job…
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The Disorderly Orderly (1964), the last of the Tashlin-Lewis collaborations, was among their best and achieved cult status. Frenetic but also suspenseful and loaded with allusions to the films of Alfred Hitchcock—particularly Vertigo (1958)—it imagines Lewis as a failed medical student who takes a job…
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