Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet

85 mins | Comedy, Science Fiction, Family | Feb. 4, 1960

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.

Visit to a Small Planet

85 mins | Comedy, Science Fiction, Family | Feb. 4, 1960

Visit to a Small Planet
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Paramount, Hal Wallis Productions, Kino Lorber
Original title Visit to a Small Planet
Directors Ralph Axness, Norman Taurog, Michael D. Moore
Writers Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson, Gore Vidal

Cast

Jerry Lewis

as Kreton

Joan Blackman

as Ellen Spelding

Earl Holliman

as Conrad

Fred Clark

as Major Roger Putnam Spelding

John Williams

as Delton

Jerome Cowan

as George Abercrombie

Gale Gordon

as Bob Mayberry

Lee Patrick

as Rheba Spelding

Milton Frome

as Police Commissioner

Ellen Corby

as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry