The Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis team adds its own way-out comedy touch to this remake of the Fredric March-Carole Lombard laughter classic, Nothing Sacred. Jerry Lewis plays the man who is treated to a last fling by his doctor and a pretty girl journalist when an incorrect diagnosis reveals that he is dying of radiation poisoning. The misadventures they run into, the pitfalls they have to avoid, and the eventual showdown, are all fast, furious and in the best traditions of slapstick. The snappy script comes from the combined pens of Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, who worked a lot with that other great clown, Danny Kaye. The funniest situation they dream up here is one in which Jerry impersonates three foreign specialists who have been sent to examine him. He has knocked out his own doctor and substituted him as the patient. Happily, the script also makes room for delicious Sheree North - who started as a dancer but proved a durable actress as several television films have shown - and that apoplectic mountain of a supporting comedy star, Fred Clark.


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