Frank Tashlin's audacious show biz satire is also one of the great rock'n'roll movies of the '50s, with classic performances by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochrane and others. Jayne Mansfield is a caricature of herself as the no-talent gangster's moll who only wants to be a housewife and mother but is shoved into the limelight by press agent Tom Ewell. The cynical vulgarisms and neo-Brechtian techniques (uneven pacing, blatant unrealism) that made director Frank Tashlin an anathema to American critics and an inspiration to French New Wave directors are in evidence here.