Title: An underappreciated musical making sly comment on corporate life
Review: With the aid of a "How-To" book, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) rises to the top of the corporate ladder at the Worldwide Wicket Company within just a few days.Along the way this brilliant musical by Frank Loesser makes sly comment on corporate life. This film makes no pretence at realism...Director David Swift obviously wanted everything to be way over the top - acting, sets, and costumes - and it works perfectly...but it contains more truth than many musicals - take the song "The Company Way", which brilliantly encapsulates the cynicism of the "company man".Robert Morse is superb as the rubber-faced Finch - think Jerry Lewis or Jim Carrey - and is matched by an able cast."How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is one of the great underappreciated film musicals, certainly one of the best film musicals from the 1960's.The quality of the DVD is excellent but sadly it contains no extras.
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