Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

 

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Pretty wild satire is something like a work of pop art with its glaring colors and collage-like editing, but the humor is often in your face and hit and miss.

Halliwell (no star): "A too-wild satire on TV commercials: less frenzied direction and gag-writing would have prised more humour from the situations."

Maltin***1/2: "Clever satire...springboard for scattershot satire on 1950s morals, television, sex, business, etc. Director-writer in peak form."