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." 

Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)

One of six travellers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes, but which one?

Lame and outdated (and not so funny) espionage spoof, which only has the exotic locations to its merit.

Halliwell (no star): "Thin comedy-thriller with exotic locations."

Maltin**1/2: "...OK spoof; good location shooting."