Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust.
At 10% a throw, the Faustling gets himself a fortune, wins the siren, judos her bruiser...
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