Jack Durant

Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.

Взросля дочь богача — мисс Блендиш, была похищена с целью выкупа и попала в руки банды под руководством престарелой преступницы Ма Гриссон. Вначале все пошло по плану, но потом события приняли неожиданный оборот…

Фильм поставлен по одноимённому роману Эрика Эмблера 1940 года. Газета «Нью-Йорк таймс» описала фильм как «экстравагантное приключение американского эксперта по артиллерии, попавшего в сеть международной интриги». История фильма «следует за своим испуганным главным героем с момента первой встречи со смертью в низкопробном стамбульском ночном клубе, через Чёрное море на занюханном греческом судёнышке для перевозки скота к последней отчаянной схватке на улицах Батуми. Странные и подозрительные персонажи оказываются на пути убегающего эксперта — нацистские шпионы, турецкая тайная полиция, второсортная танцевальная пара, подкаблучник — политический теоретик, омерзительный старый греческий морской капитан и убийца в очках. Короче говоря, случайные морские обломки, из которых состоит мелодрама».

Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).

Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie starring pretty student Alice Perkins. But Jimmie hopes to bilk the bilkers by actually completing the movie as ostensibly planned.

Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.