A film by Tashlin & Lewis, their film Noir, very elegant in its way, evoking more than just Preminger, Siodmak, Ulmer and Sirk. It was worth doing just for the title alone.
Tashlin's great live-action cartoon Film Noir starring his one time protege and then current co-creator, Jerry Lewis. You can see where Jerry's routines alternate with Tashlin's more elaborate gags, but they harmonize jarringly, startling, beautifully, like the brilliant improvisational Jazz of the time. (They should have asked Ornette Coleman to do the score.) The photography and the setting of the house above the cliff evoke Preminger. The electrocuted Lewis, hopping down the driveway, evokes Porky Pig. Noir stalwart Zachary Scott (Ruthless, 1948) plays a murderous lawyer in his final role.
Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfOJMN_FLE
A wacky repairer of televisions, lawnmowers and other electrical devices that have suddenly broken down, dreams of becoming the assistant of a private detective in the neighborhood who is investigating the son of a wealthy industrialist who has been missing for about twenty-five years. FUNNY AND SEDUCTIVE! www.cinefiches.com
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can’t be…can he?
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