Sailor Beware (1952)

A young man (Jerry Lewis) who is allergic to women's cosmetics like lipstick, face powder etc. joins the navy. A more worldly sailor (Dean Martin) befriends him and takes him under his wing. On their way to an assignment in Hawaii, his fellow sailors make a bet that he can't get a nightclub singer (Corinne Calvet) to kiss him. Based on the play by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson and directed by Hal Walker (ROAD TO MOROCCO). One of the weaker Martin and Lewis vehicles, it's near plotless while a series of episodic comic situations not related to each other make up the bulk of the movie. I'm a big fan of Jerry Lewis but he's really hit and miss in this one. It's the kind of performance that people who hate Lewis point to as an example of why they don't like him. Martin pads out the movie by singing a couple of mediocre songs. With Betty Hutton, Vince Edwards, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss, Leif Erickson, Mary Treen and a young James Dean, who would have to wait three more years before his big break.