Maler und Mädchen (1955)

Maler und Mädchen: Directed by Frank Tashlin. With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone. Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.

“One of Martin u0026amp; Lewisu0026#39;s better films, this gaudy comedy stretches a paper-thin plot by unnecessarily stringing out a couple of Lewisu0026#39;s comedy sequences – the bathtub scene, and the scene in which heu0026#39;s accosted by an elfin-like Shirley Maclaine on the stairs in particular. Lewis moons and gurns and pulls the kind of faces that are hilarious to a six-year-old (and French people) but will leave anyone in long trousers cold. Martin looks effortlessly cool and does his bit to pad out the film by singing a few numbers. The story is rubbish, an excuse to show Maclaine and Malone in various states of modest undress to keep the dadu0026#39;s interested while mum swoons over Martin and the kids shriek at Lewis.”