Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: [Tashlin], as the writer, producer and director of the film, has let it go mushy and sprawling even more than the original play of George Axelrod. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Tashlin had a huge stylistic impact on the New Wave. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, his greatest film, is the template for Godard's bold use of primary colors and 'Scope in the 60s. Read more

Time Out: The not inconsiderable charms of Jayne Mansfield are much to the fore, but it's Randall's performance as timid advertising executive Rockwell Hunter that holds the whole thing together. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: [Mansfield] constantly catches you off guard. She's this unabashedly crude movie's bleached-blond heart and soul. Read more

Variety: In converting the stageplay Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? to his purposes, Frank Tashlin turns out a vastly amusing comedy. Read more