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The Sad Sack is a 1957 American comedy film based on the Harvey Comics character of the same title, created by George Baker. The film stars Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre and was released by Paramount Pictures .
A bumbling hero with a photographic memory joins the French Foreign Legion in Morocco and causes chaos. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, soundtrack and more for this classic comedy film.
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- Comedy
- George Marshall
- 1957-11-27
Sad Sack is an American comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II. Set in the United States Army, Sad Sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. The so-called "unnamed private" was actually Ben Schnall, a true-life private ...
Sep 4, 2014 · The Sad Sack 1957 Jerry Lewis Full Length Comedy Movie***Director: George Marshall**Stars: Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, David Wayne
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Dec 20, 2013 · The Sad Sack was primitive—even crude—in its visual style, but that suited the subject: a powerless cog in a machine he never made, the Sack with his sagging, rumpled, awkward physique and hangdog expression was the personification of the Army's typical private, a pathetic dogface, frazzled and worn, destined to be defeated by every ...
Synopsis. Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training.
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The Sad Sack is a solid example of the first phase of Lewis's solo career, before he began directing his own material. During this era, which lasts from about 1957 to 1960, he made six films and honed his skills as a promising director, learning a great deal from mentor Frank Tashlin.
