This backstage comedy in which the love between a young man and a starlet is opposed by his family has inspired only superlatives from critics: "Extraordinary, hysterical, hilarious-words fail me to describe these cinematic fireworks....Each scene is a monument to comedy: the venomous rapport between Totò and his brother, played by Peppino; the sausages lost in the hotel room; (and above all) the scene of the letter to the fallen woman dictated by Totò to Peppino....This film is the Everest...the highest summit of our planet Totò." (René Marx) Based on a song written by Totò (and censored by the Church), this is the Neapolitan contribution to the fifties blonde bombshell films, albeit a brilliant surrealistic spoof of them (and much preferred by local audiences to the Monroe/Mansfield imports). Peppino and Manfredi costar, along with the "malafemmina" played by an actress with the unlikely name of Dorian Gray whom we might recognize from films by Antonioni and Fellini.