Classic Friday : The Nutty Professor (1963) 9/10

Starring : Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Director : Jerry Lewis
Running Time : 103 mins

Professor Julius Kelp (Lewis) decides to create a magical potion which can turn him from a nerdish wallflower into a confident ladies man, but once he’s transformed into his alter ego, Buddy Love, he finds that the effects begin to wear after faster and faster each time he uses the potion.

This is possibly Jerry Lewis’s most famous character, and deservedly so. Lewis gets to play both the clumsy nerd we know and love as well as the charismatic lead man in this slapstick comedy. Murphy’s remake was admirable, but the original will always be just the notch better simply because the change to Lewis’s professor is both physical and mental.

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