The Sad Sack

5.6
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 98 min
  • Premiere: 1957. November 27.

Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.

Discover

Jerry Lewis

Private Meredith C. Bixby

David Wayne

Corporal Larry Dolan

Phyllis Kirk

Maj. Shelton

Joe Mantell

Pvt. Stan Wenaslawsky

Gene Evans

Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley

George Dolenz

Ali Mustapha

Shepperd Strudwick

Major General Vanderlip

Mary Treen

Sgt. Hansen

Marilyn Hanold

Sexy Female

Art

Sam Comer

Set Decoration

Ray Moyer

Set Decoration

Hal Pereira

Art Direction

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

Camera

Loyal Griggs

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edith Head

Costume Design

Wally Westmore

Makeup Supervisor

Nellie Manley

Hair Supervisor

Crew

John P. Fulton

Special Effects

Charles O'Curran

Choreographer

Directing

Charles Morton

Script Supervisor

Charles C. Coleman

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Paul Nathan

Associate Producer

Hal B. Wallis

Producer

Andrew J. Durkus

Unit Production Manager

Sound

Walter Scharf

Original Music Composer

Jim Miller

Sound Recordist

Harold Lewis

Sound Recordist

Winston H. Leverett

Sound Recordist

Writing

Edmund Beloin

Screenplay

Nate Monaster

Screenplay

George Baker

Characters

Art

Sam Comer

Set Decoration

Ray Moyer

Set Decoration

Hal Pereira

Art Direction

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

Camera

Loyal Griggs

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edith Head

Costume Design

Wally Westmore

Makeup Supervisor

Nellie Manley

Hair Supervisor

Crew

John P. Fulton

Special Effects

Charles O'Curran

Choreographer

Directing

Charles Morton

Script Supervisor

Charles C. Coleman

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Paul Nathan

Associate Producer

Hal B. Wallis

Producer

Andrew J. Durkus

Unit Production Manager

Sound

Walter Scharf

Original Music Composer

Jim Miller

Sound Recordist

Harold Lewis

Sound Recordist

Winston H. Leverett

Sound Recordist

Writing

Edmund Beloin

Screenplay

Nate Monaster

Screenplay

George Baker

Characters