Hollywood or Bust

Take a Technicolor trip across America with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. For their last film together, director Frank Tashlin (The Girl Can't Help It, Dec. 11) throws the odd couple (Lewis, a movie freak with popcorn for brains and Martin, a recently reformed bookie) into a Cadillac aimed west. Off they go into the Saturday Evening Post countryside, through an array of old movie sets, along a highway lined with Beautiful Girls, and past other assorted fantasies, all rooted in the slippery surface of the American mass media. And all transformed through Tashlin's sad-eyed amusement into something more, what François Truffaut called “a lesson in good cinema that takes a slap at Hollywood's mediocrities.”

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