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...Sailor Beware--Martin and Lewis sing and mug through a jumbled story remotely connected with the Navy. At the Metropolitan...
This is all very well and good for a half hour, but an hour and three quarters of it is too much to take. Had Mr. Wallis followed the formula of the last Martin Lewis film, That's My Boy, by providing a little continuity and plot, Sailor Beware would have been a much more successful offering...
Rabid animal lovers will immensely enjoy watching Jerry Lewis in his and Dean Martin's latest film, Sailor Beware. He bounces like a kangaroo, twitches like a horse, warbles like a rooster and talks like a nanny goat. Non-zoophiles, however, will find Lewis' prancing decreasingly funny as the picture goes...
...Sailor Beware suffers from a gross misjudgement on the part of producer Hal Wallis. In an effort to make the picture funny, he has sacrificed all pretense of plot to allow the rubber-faced Mr. Lewis every possible situation for the display of his various energetic talents. At different points Lewis plays a Hawaiian ethnic dancer, a professional prize fighter, a lover, a sailor and others too numerous to mention...
...impatiently for him. Reporters dug into the history of the skipper of the Flying Enterprise, interviewed his family and crew. People read that he had learned his deep-water trade by crossing the Atlantic ten times in sailing ships, that he had made up his mind to be a sailor at the age of eleven, and stubbornly insisted on taking his old rowboat into the most dangerous waters around his home at Hamlet-haunted Elsinore, Denmark. By the time Carlsen arrived last week, the city...