Don't Give Up the Ship

Ensign Steckler and Chief Wychinski go to explore an island after their ship has run aground.

While exploring the island, a background shot of the ship shows it rolling in the sea swells.

The destroyer USS Kornblatt has been missing since World War II and Congressman Gale Gordon wants to know where it is. It's several million dollars worth of taxpayer's money from Uncle Sam.

I grew up on movies and TV shows with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (neither of those names are their actual birth names), but I mostly saw their stuff from the 1960s onward. This 1959 movie with Jerry Lewis is a real gem, it is a good mixture of semi-serious stuff and Lewis' goofball type of physical humor.

I do not know where these people got their info.,but for all intents and purposes,it's wrong.

The raw talent of comic Jerry Lewis, has rarely been equaled, but not often surpassed. He has entertained American audiences for decades.

I must admit that I am not a huge fan of Jerry Lewis' films. While I've seen all the ones he did with Dean Martin, I have avoided his solo films because (in my opinion) he tended to overact and subtlety was NOT a concern.

It seems that the USS Cornblatt is missing. How can a USS Cornblatt be missing?

Directed by Norman Taurog, this Jerry Lewis comedy also includes the lovely Dina Merrill. If you've never seen a Jerry Lewis film before, this is a pretty good example of one.