Jerry Lewis's first movie as director-writer-star (and co-producer) . The film's loose structure: the plot-less film centers around Stanley (Lewis), a bumbling bellboy at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. In place of a story, The Bellboy has what it describes as "a series of silly sequences." One typical sequence has Stanley instructed to take "everything out of the trunk" of an arriving car and take its contents up to the guest's room. Only the car turns out to be a Volkswagen Beetle, though Stanley dutifully removes the car's engine and delivers it to its nonplussed owner.
Though its gags are variable, The Bellboy pretty much works on every level.
Though its gags are variable, The Bellboy pretty much works on every level.