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How To Murder Your Wife 1965
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Terry-Thomas testifying on the stand during the trial.
Jack Lemmon as Stanley Ford
Virna Lisi as Mrs. Ford (her first name is never given)
Terry-Thomas as Charles Firbank
Eddie Mayehoff as Harold Lampson
Claire Trevor as Edna Lampson
Mary Wickes as Harold's secretary
Jack Albertson as Dr. Bentley
Sidney Blackmer as Judge Blackstone
Max Showalter as Tobey Rawlins
Alan Hewitt as District Attorney
Barry Kelley as Club Member (Steam Room)
William Bryant as Construction Worker
Charles Bateman as Club Member (Steam Room)
Edward Faulkner as Club Member/Party Guest
Lauren Gilbert as Men's Club Manager
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The comic strip art featured in the film was credited to Mel Keefer, who drew newspaper comic strips such as Perry Mason , Mac Divot and Rick O'Shay . Comics artist Alex Toth did a teaser comic strip in Keefer's style that ran in The Hollywood Reporter and in several newspapers promoting the film for ten days prior to its theatrical opening.
Stanley Ford ( Jack Lemmon ) is a newspaper cartoonist enjoying the comforts of a well-to-do and happy bachelorhood in his urban New York City town house; comforts which include his loyal and attentive valet, Charles Firbank ( Terry-Thomas ). Stanley's comic strip, Bash Brannigan , is a secret-agent thriller characterized by a high level of realism ; no matter how outrageous the plot, Stanley will not allow Brannigan to do anything physically impossible or use gadgets that don't exist. He hires actors and sets up elaborate enactments of storylines, playing Brannigan himself, while Charles takes photographs which Stanley uses as visual references when drawing each strip.
While attending a bachelor party for his friend Tobey Rawlins ( Max Showalter ), Stanley becomes very drunk and marries a beautiful Italian woman ( Virna Lisi ) who, wearing a whipped cream bikini, had been a highlight of the party when she stepped out of a large cake. An equally drunken judge ( Sidney Blackmer ) performed the impromptu wedding and the following morning, Stanley wakes up next to his naked wife. He asks his lawyer Harold Lampson ( Eddie Mayehoff ) to arrange a divorce but Lampson says this is impossible without legal justification.
Stanley's new bride is cheerful, affectionate and sexy, but does not speak English. To learn the language, she spends time with Harold's manipulative, hen-pecking wife Edna ( Claire Trevor ), who speaks Italian. Unfortunately, in the process, she also learns Edna's ways. Charles, who has a policy of not working for married couples, takes a new job with Rawlins, who ended up being jilted by his bride-to-be. With his valet and the associated perfect organization of his life now gone, Stanley's bathroom fills with beauty products and lingerie and he is kept awake at night by the television, which his wife watches to improve her English. Her high-calorie Italian cooking causes his weight to balloon and she announces that her mother will be coming from Rome to live with them.
Adjusting to his marital status, Stanley changes his Bash Brannigan comic strip from the exploits of a secret agent to a household comedy, The Brannigans , again drawing from his real life. The comic strip turns Bash into a bumbling idiot and becomes wildly popular with the public. His wife continues to alter Stanley's lifestyle. Increasingly irritated by the restrictions of married life, Stanley calls a meeting of his associates at his all-male health club. When Edna learns of the meeting, she telephones Mrs. Ford and arouses her suspicions about Stanley's activities. Mrs. Ford sneaks into the club, resulting in Stanley being banned for violating its "no women" policy.
Stanley concocts a plot in his comic strip to kill Brannigan's wife. He drugs her with " goofballs " and buries her alive in "the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine " at the construction site next to their home, so that Brannigan can resume his career as a secret agent. As always, he enacts the events live before drawing the strip, again with the help of his old valet Charles. After drugging his wife during a wild cocktail party, Stanley carries her up to bed, then switches to a department-store mannequin to play out the burial in concrete.
Mrs. Ford comes to, sees the finished comic strip describing Stanley's murder plan and concludes that her husband does not love her. While Stanley sleeps, she leaves, taking nothing with her. After reading The Brannigans strip in the newspapers and recognizing that Mrs. Ford has disappeared without a trace, the district attorney and police decide that Stanley must have murdered his wife. Stanley is arrested, charged with murder and his comic strips are used as prosecution evidence at the trial. When it appears that a conviction is likely, Stanley takes up his own defense and pleads justifiable homicide , appealing to the all-male jury's frustrations regarding their own wives. He is acquitted unanimously; the men in the courtroom applaud and carry Stanley out on their shoulders, to the consternation of women left sitting inside.
Accompanied by a joyful Charles, Stanley goes home and immediately sees that his wife has returned and is in their bedroom. His valet reminds him that killing her now would not have any legal consequences; since Stanley has already been acquitted of her murder, trying him again would constitute double jeopardy . In his time without her Stanley came to realize that he loves his wife and when he enters their room he finds her in bed waiting for him. After putting her wedding ring back on her finger, they are reconciled. Charles meets Mrs. Ford's attractive mother; she has come from Rome (her daughter had run home to her) and is in the process of settling in to the Ford household. Like Charles, she has a prominent tooth gap . Resigned to the inevitable for himself, he closes the door to her room so they can share an amorous moment alone.
The music was composed by Neal Hefti .
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Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until, he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake (Virna Lisi). Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
Jack Lemmon
Stanley Ford
Virna Lisi
Mrs. Ford
Terry-Thomas
Charles
Eddie Mayehoff
Harold Lampson
Claire Trevor
Edna
Sidney Blackmer
Judge Blackstone
Richard Quine
Director
George Axelrod
Screenwriter
George Axelrod
Producer
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| Rating: 2/5
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A mostly forgotten gem from 1965 this comedy operates under the seductive fantasy that no man ever really wants to be married. After one drunken night's revelry Lemmon awakes to discover he's slipped up ... and did it, got married (to Verna Lisi! Zowie!). Now what?
Is there any way out of it??? More cute than laff-out-loud funny it does carry more than a few good bits. It's fun cute.
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Stanley Ford is a single man with a good fortune, but he is NOT in want of a wife. He enjoys his bachelor ways as a cartoonist, having his way with women and being taken care of by a butler. In a moment of drunkenness, he marries an Italian woman who doesn't speak a word of English. She is a very loving wife and nothing seems to phase her but Ford hates being married and tries unsuccessfully to dump her. He imagines that he's killed her and emulates his thoughts in his cartoon. Everyone believes he's actually killed her and tries him for murder. That's the basic plot.
There are tons of sexist, chauvinistic lines and attitudes. The comedy is dry and insulting to women. Obviously it is satire, but it's still insulting. I sat through the whole movie but it was difficult to watch and I didn't enjoy it.
Dannielle A
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The story is predictable and silly, but there are a handful of really hilarious scenes, which save the movie from being too bad.
Aj V
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Haven't seen it in ages, but I remember it was a hoot.
Morris N
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A nimble comedy that doesn't make much sense because it makes nonsense, most of it screechingly funny and played by knockabouts who know that the slapstick was invented for keeping an idea aloft, not for beating it into the ground.
Finesse and desire aren't enough to overcome the fact that Axelrod's script doesn't make the most of its potentially antic situations.
Believable or not, this stuff is funny just so long as one can go with the sour joke- -and that depends upon one's tolerance of trivia and also, perhaps, upon whether one is a fellow or a girl.
In the screwball tradition, but the old shack has been redecorated with solid-mahogany furniture, plush drapes and wall-to-wall carpeting.
This dated comedy is saved by Lemmon's comedic genius which eschews macho.
Lemmon est timo como sempre, e Lisi belssima, mas o fraco roteiro e a ridcula concluso comprometem o filme irremediavelmente.
The movie contains unbelievably sexist lines and attitudes, and it's impossible to imagine anyone in this day and age watching the film without being horribly offended.
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