Jerry Lewis
Private Meredith C. Bixby
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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.
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- George Marshall
- 98 min
- 6
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Dec 20, 2013 · Nobody ever had it as bad as the Sack—the Sad Sack, George Baker’s perpetually luckless anti-hero of World War II. The world was poised to dump on him, and Baker made sure it did—creating in the process one of the most popular cartoon characters of the twentieth century.
In The Sad Sack, the title character is a naïve and gullible young man christened Private Meredith Bixby, a name that echoes previous Lewis roles. On his way to Camp Calhoun, Private Bixby befriends Corporal Larry Dolan and Private Stan Wenaslawsky.
