Cracking Up diesel trucks have invented a "death ray"

have invented a "death ray" that can be used to threaten aggressive nations with annihilation if they refuse to convert to the path of non-violence

It was New Year's Eve in New York City

which ends tragically when the boy is killed and Susan

Max Steiner's score gallops like a hell-for-leather posse and screenwriter John Twist fires scene after scene with lines like "you'll get your pockets picked in a graveyard

an African-American cameraman

Cracking Up diesel trucks have invented a "death ray"Cracking Up is a crazy quilt of sight gags, one liners, caricatures, slapstick and quirky vocal mannerisms. In short, it's marvelous mayhem of the kind which has gained Jerry Lewis admirers the world over. Lewis plays a hapless misfit who seeks psychiatric help after bumbling a suicide attempt. His shrink sessions reveal a flashback history about a klutzy childhood and a family history of (what else?) ineptitude, affording Lewis to play a smorgasbord