The critically lambasted Which Way to the Front? marked the depth of Jerry Lewis as a filmmaker.
Jerry Lewis plays Brendan Byers III, a wealthy tycoon who gets rejected from the US army during World War 2.
So Byers creates his own army unit and then goes off to Italy to fight in the front and gets involved in capturing a Nazi general Eric Kesselring, also played by Lewis.
Which Way to the Front? is a forgotten film and is very rarely shown on television. It is very uneven, anachronistic and not too funny. It is also odd that Lewis decided to play a caricature Japanese person.
It is however sporadically amusing and there is a sense of silliness and absurdity about it all but it is a long way away from his best days. Jerry Lewis would only return to form in the black comedy, The King of Comedy in 1982.
Jerry Lewis plays Brendan Byers III, a wealthy tycoon who gets rejected from the US army during World War 2.
So Byers creates his own army unit and then goes off to Italy to fight in the front and gets involved in capturing a Nazi general Eric Kesselring, also played by Lewis.
Which Way to the Front? is a forgotten film and is very rarely shown on television. It is very uneven, anachronistic and not too funny. It is also odd that Lewis decided to play a caricature Japanese person.
It is however sporadically amusing and there is a sense of silliness and absurdity about it all but it is a long way away from his best days. Jerry Lewis would only return to form in the black comedy, The King of Comedy in 1982.