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Released
1957 · FILM

The Delicate Delinquent

JERRY LEWIS makes that blackboard jungle jump for joy. He's funnier than ever...

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
101 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Howard A SmithShot by Haskell B BoggsScored by Buddy Bregman

Also known as

  • Der Held von Brooklynde
  • Dümmer als die Polizei erlaubtde
  • Delicado delincuentees
  • Le Délinquant involontairefr
  • Il delinquente delicatoit

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