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The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Barbara Bostock
- Desdemona - Beatnik Dancer
- (as Barbara Lawson)
Don Bagley
- Bassist
- (uncredited)
Gene Collins
- Beatnik
- (uncredited)
Jack Costanzo
- Percussionist
- (uncredited)
John Dennis
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Beach Dickerson
- Beatnik
- (uncredited)
John Diggs
- General
- (uncredited)
Dominic Fidelibus
- Beatnik
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaGore Vidal, who wrote the original play, was extremely upset with the choice of Jerry Lewis as the lead in the movie version. On Broadway Vidal's play ran for 388 performances between Feb 7, 1957-Jan 11, 1958 and won Cyril Ritchard, originator of the Kreton character, a 1957 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in Play. However, Lewis was a star, 12 times named to the Top Ten list of Box Office Stars, six times with partner Dean Martin (with whom he was the top star of 1952), and six times solo (ranking as high as #3 in 1958). He got the part.
- GoofsDuring the Hungry Brain sequence, the jazz band's trumpet player is shown playing with his horn "open" (unmuted), but the trumpeter heard on the soundtrack is using a mute.
- ConnectionsFeatured in E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors (1982)
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I was five years old when this movie came out and was intrigued more by the special effects (Jerry floating in air and walking up the wall and onto the ceiling). It was also of not that this was his last film for many years where he had someone else direct the film (the veteran Norman Taurog). From this Jerry went to make his kind of movies. My parents were big Lewis fans and I am to this day. This may not be up there with "The Nutty Professor" but it's close. This film also had a good supporting cast and had a "stagy" look befitting its origins as a play. I mentioned being intrigued by the FX (floating and walking on walls). Being a typical kid I thought I could walk on walls and quickly found out I couldn't. This is definitely something that shouldn't be tried at home-only in the movies.
- ruthann-renaud
- Jun 24, 2009
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- Besuch auf einem kleinen Planeten
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Visit to a Small Planet (1960) officially released in Canada in English?
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