The Bellboy

• Stanley delivers an entire car engine to Room 664 after being told to "bring up everything out of the trunk."
• The bellhops stand in a line and trip over each other when Bob the Bell Captain points at them from afar to get their attention.
• Mr. Carter stays in Room 625 while Miss Winkley stays in Room 626. Stanley finds Miss Winkley's brassiere in Mr. Carter's luggage and leaves without hanging any of his clothes up.
• Mrs. Hartung comes to the hotel to stay for 2 weeks. During this time, she loses a large amount of weight due to extreme dieting. As she's waiting for her uncle to pick her up, Stanley delivers a box of chocolates to her which she promptly devours, causing her to gain all the weight back.
• Stanley randomly assigns the keys for all the suites, locking the guests out of their rooms.
• Bob sends Stanley to fill the hotel's empty theater/auditorium with chairs. To Bob's shock, Stanley finishes in record time.
• Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel accompanied by his incessant entourage of employees. The other bellboys comment on Stanley's resemblance to Lewis.
• Stanley delivers a note to Milton Berle, who mistakes Stanley for Jerry Lewis. Lewis then mistakes Berle for a bellboy who looks identical to Milton.
• Stanley loses control over the hotel guests' dogs and they escape into the city streets. Once off-duty, he visits the dog track with his coworkers, steals the racing dogs, and takes them back to the hotel.
• Stan Laurel attempts to strike up a conversation with Stanley to no avail.
• Bob puts Stanley in charge of the reception desk, leading Stanley to destroy the phones when they won't stop ringing.
• A modeling convention in town has its models stay at the hotel. The other bellboys accost them, leading Stanley to be the only one allowed to handle their belongings.
• Stanley is assaulted by a middle-aged couple after they drag him into one of their arguments.
• Mr. Novak gives a lecture about being professionally dressed as he wears casual beach attire.
• A packed dining room forces Stanley to sit next to a gangster boss giving conflicting orders to his subordinates.
• An exhausted woman named Dottie falls asleep on Stanley's shoulder as he takes a break.
• Mr. Novak forbids his staff from going to a burlesque club. Bob is then shown drunk at the club but leaves before the main performer arrives.
• Stanley places a mesh covering on a sleeping man's face so he does not get sunburned. The mesh pattern gives him an uneven tan.
• Stanley attempts to eat lunch by himself but is interrupted by hotel guests ogling at him from behind a window.
• Stanley fails to listen to Bob's instructions and hauls a heavy steamer trunk across the hotel lobby instead of the hat box Bob wanted.
• A man eats an invisible apple and leaves some for Stanley to finish.
• Stanley overhears a telephone conversation as he drinks from a drinking fountain. The female voice says she wants to marry someone who doesn't love her for her fortune or her Rolls-Royce, but for who she is as a person. As Stanley prepares to win her heart, he finds that the voice belongs to Stan Laurel.
• Stanley refuses to let go of a suitcase; the owner drags Stanley through the hotel lobby, into a taxi, and drives away.
• Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Manville wait in the lobby for their suite to be ready. Mr. Manville slips and injures his back as Stanley waxes the floor.
• Stanley is sent to acquire a pickup order from Mr. Weal in Room 877, but the elevator door fails to open.
• Passing through the theater, Stanley picks up a drum mallet and uses it to conduct an imaginary orchestra. As he finishes the piece, an imaginary audience gives Stanley a round of applause.
• A malfunctioning trouser press leaves a hotel guest's pants as stiff as cardboard.
• Stanley disfigures a bust after failing to read a "Wet Paint" sign.
• Stanley goes to a golf tournament, where the flashing bulb of his camera costs Cary Middlecoff the win and $25,000.
• At 3:30am, Stanley goes outside to take a photo of the full moon. Upon taking the photo, the moon disappears and inexplicably turns the night into daytime.
• Stanley is sent by Mr. Novak to retrieve a briefcase from the cockpit of an airplane sitting at the airport. Stanley makes the journey, then commandeers an airliner back to the hotel.
• Stanley and the other bellboys sit in a meeting discussing an upcoming labor strike. Mr. Novak barges in, falsely accusing Stanley of being the organizer. Stanley speaks for the first time in the movie, answering the question of why he never talks, "Because no one ever asked me."

A voice-over narration states that while the film had no plot, it did have a moral: "You'll never know the next guy's story...unless you ask."

The film grossed about $10 million in the USA alone.[5]

Eugene Archer of The New York Times wrote that some parts of the film were "surprisingly successful" and that it was to Lewis' credit that "he has kept his energetic demeanor in reasonable check," to the point that some of his fans "may find the comedian disappointingly restrained."[6] Variety stated: "Several of the sequences are amusing, but too many are dependent upon climactic sight gags anticipated well ahead of the punch ... There are latent elements of Charlie Chaplin's little tramp, Jacques Tati's 'Hulot,' Danny Kaye's 'Mitty' and Harpo Marx's curiously tender child-man, but the execution falls far short of such inspiration."[7] John L. Scott of the Los Angeles Times commented that there were "some very laughable situations" in the film, adding, "Some gags don't come off too well, but there are so many that the poorer ones quickly get lost in the fast shuffle."[8] The Monthly Film Bulletin reviewer wrote: "Too many scenes are both pointless and witless; sometimes the gag doesn't work, sometimes the direction is to blame. And Lewis's habit of ending each joke with a display of cross-eyed, simian mugging is scarcely endearing. Nevertheless, there remain some half-dozen moments of genuine comic invention."[9]

The film has a rating of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews with an average rating of 6.89/10.[10]