Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957

Action / Comedy / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 4443 4.4K

advertising expert ambition satire engagement marketing social satire

Plot summary

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.

Director

Frank Tashlin Photo
Frank Tashlin

Top cast

John Williams Photo
John Williams as Irving La Salle Jr.
Jayne Mansfield Photo
Jayne Mansfield as Rita Marlowe
Robert Adler Photo
Robert Adler as Mailman
Barbara Eden Photo
Barbara Eden as Miss Carstairs
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854.02 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1
1.71 GB
1904*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by itamarscomix 6 / 10

Witty but mellow

This piece of satire from 1957 was probably considered edgy and sharp back then, but it really didn't age too well, and there isn't much else about it to make it stand on its own legs as a classic. The witty send-ups of television, the advertising industry and celebrity culture seems tame and mellow now that real celebrity culture is so much more extreme than anybody in the 50's might have guessed, and reality had surpassed any possible satire. The film is still watchable, even entertaining - the script is solid and smart and has more double entendres than most writers back then and which probably should have never received the Hays code's approval. Joan Blondell is hilarious and steals the show whenever she's on screen, and obviously Jayne Mansfield is a screen presence to be reckoned with, and she nails her role here and is a real pleasure to watch. Tony Randall spoils it a little - he's just good enough to be passable as a dull straight man, but he's far more wooden and dull than the role calls for, and he did better before and after, most notably in TV's The Odd Couple. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is worth keeping if only because Jayne Mansfield films are so precious few, and it still has the slightly campy fun of a 50's comedy, but it isn't a classic worth lingering on.
Reviewed by jellopuke 7 / 10

Hit and miss satire

Occasionally biting, sometimes off the mark with cornball sight gags, but solid for the most part. You can see Tashlin's cartoon background with some of the visual gags and sound/sight cues, but there's just a distance here that doesn't really work. Randall has no chemistry with his best girl and it's hard to buy that angle, but for a spoof movie, you can overlook stuff like that. Overall it's pretty funny, dated in parts for sure, but still watchable.
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