Frank Tashlin

It wasn't that he just wanted to sort of steamroll everyone.

When Frank Tashlin came in, he was very happy with his direction.

But shortly after Martin and Lewis split, Jerry made the film The Delicate Delinquent, which he wanted to have Tashlin on.

But Tashlin had just escaped the auspices of Hal Wallace and Paramount himself and didn't want to be pulled back in.

So an interesting instance of them working with someone I think we could call more of an auteur director.

What is it you think he brings? Do those films stand out for you versus, say, a Norman Turok or a George Marshall directed Martin Lewis film?

It's obvious Frank Tashlin brought vision.

He had his own style.

It feels like this last movie takes a little bit of my Sweet Smell of Success era.

It takes a little bit of the satirical edge of this, kind of mash it, and then just the broad comedy of Bank Dick, mashes all of them together into this weird bag that director Frank Tashlin brought puts a bow around and i i love the looney tunes insanity of will success spoil rock hunter

ladies and gentlemen here is frank tashlin director of the lieutenant war skirts and the girl can't help it shooting a scene with jane mansfield for will success spoil rock hunter the howling broadway comedy hit

leave and walk out on all this publicity

and accompanying Jane on this mad whirl are all of the wonderful pals who made the play one of Broadway's most delight-filled entertainments.

Ross Hunter was like, I think I read somewhere Tashlin said it was his favorite because it was really the one film where he got to do everything he wanted to do.

Nobody interfered with him.

This is really like Frank Tashlin's definitive statement as a filmmaker.