Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Movie Review 1957

Dated advertising satire finds ad man Hunter (Randall) hoping to get the key to the executive washroom but he may instead find himself on the unemployment line unless he can convince the profitable Stay-Put lipstick account not to change agencies. One day Rock sees movie star Rita Marlowe (Mansfield), and her kissable lips, on TV and tries to convince her to endorse the product. But she'll only agree if he'll pose as her new boyfriend to make ex-beau Bobo (Mansfield's real-life hubby Hargitay) jealous. Naturally, the lipstick ads take off bigtime but success does indeed spoil Rock (at least temporarily). Very slightly based on the play by George Axelrod.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 94 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody, Advertising, Adapted from a Play, Dream Girls

Screenplay

Frank Tashlin

Cast

Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Mickey Hargitay, John Williams, Henry Jones, Joan Blondell

Cinematography

Joe MacDonald

Director

Frank Tashlin

Music

Cyril Mockridge

Other

Groucho Marx

Producer

Frank Tashlin, 20th Century-Fox

Awards

Natl. Film Reg. 2000.