Hollywood or Bust

Heading to Hollywood, one fleeing gambling debts and the other hoping to meet Anita Ekberg, Steve and Malcolm (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) have been held up by a hitch-hiking granny (Kathryn Card) then are rescued by jalopy-driving “Red” (Pat Crowley), in the final Martin & Lewis film, Hollywood Or Bust, 1956.

Elaborate schtick in taste acceptable at the time, Frank Tashlin directing the opening of the last Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis feature vehicle, Dean addressing the camera, Jerry doing gags, co-star Anita Ekberg in various costumes kind of relevant to the cross-country drive plot, in Paramount’s Hollywood Or Bust, 1956.