Hollywood or Bust

Take a Technicolortrip across America with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. For their lastfilm together, director Frank Tashlin throws the odd couple-Lewis, amovie freak with popcorn for brains and Martin, a recently reformedbookie-into a Cadillac aimed west. Off they go into the Saturday EveningPost countryside, through an array of old movie sets, along a highwaylined with Beautiful Girls and past other assorted fantasies, all rootedin the slippery surface of American mass media. And all transformedthrough Tashlin's sad-eyed amusement into something more, what Fran?oisTruffaut called "a lesson in good cinema that takes a slap atHollywood's mediocrities."

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