"A work of ferocious tastelessness about an untalented song writer who hires a whore to impersonate his wife so he can prostitute her to an influential singer in return for a plug/ the most underrated of Wilder's recent films/ Swiftean in its relentless disgust/ a brilliant satire on a cheap and vulgar society and crowned with an extraordinary performance by Dean Martin as a drunken lout who gets migraine if he does not go to bed with a woman every night." --Peter Barnes, National Film Theatre, London