Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis formed an unlikely comedic partnership in the early 1950s that managed to find wild popularity among audiences through a mixture of slapstick buffoonery and odd couple antics.
The formula was simple but innovative at the time: Lewis flailing around the screen like a swarm of demented clowns with Martin, the stoic straight man crooning and shuffling like everything is fine while the world disintegrates around him.
(1953) was the latest in a series of Martin/Lewis vehicles in which the plot mostly served as wobbly scaffolding to connect some well-rehearsed, but very, Lewis plays Harvey Miller Jr – the son of a champion golfer, Harvey has inherited some of his father’s talent for the game but is too nervous to play in front of crowds. He becomes fast friends with his future brother-in-law Joe Anthony (Martin) whose family owns a seafood restaurant and fishing trawler, but Joe wants no part of the family business and chooses instead to dedicate himself to golf with Harvey as his instructor and caddy.
