Visit to a Small Planet
Feb 04 1960
•1h 25m
•Comedy, Science Fiction, Family
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.
Cast
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Jerry Lewis
Kreton
Joan Blackman
Ellen Spelding
Earl Holliman
Conrad
Fred Clark
Major Roger Putnam Spelding
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