How to Murder Your Wife

1965 "Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!"
6.5| 1h58m| NR| en
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Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Ensofter Overrated and overhyped
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
jlvergae Oh Dear, go at the end of the reviews and you will see the feminist reviews blaming this movie for all the women's suffering of the world, or even being gay, or simply illogical in some aspects. Now if like me you are a relatively happy married fellow with some basic desire to be respected in our masculinity, if you see no gay tendency for having a butler or for going to a male only gym and massage session (like many Asian gentlemen still indulge in), and if you see with both happiness and inquietude your tummy increasing from eating your wife's delicious food (yes, it still happens that women can cook and care), then you will enjoy it! I really enjoy the idea of a gentleman club, with healthy gym and a bit of a drinks later. It would be such a relief from our daily concerns, it would allow some socializing and contrary to what some ill-intended feminists may think, a no-lady-accepted club is the guarantee to wives that their husband does not get miscarried by extra-marital adventures. Allowing men to go there, only once a week, would be beneficial to everyone. Of course it will not happen: men have to baby-sit, cook, work hard, help to the house-core, and are only sometimes allow to watch a stupid game on TV while eating a popcorn bag and drinking a cheap beer. The movie depicts the time of good old fellows, talking civilized English, drinking a chilled martini, and singing good men songs while drunk instead of vomiting obscenities out of a bar. Let us go back to this good old time, which was not good for everyone... but let us enjoy it, just once, and laugh about it!
enddetour Plot: Confirmed bachelor gets drunk, gets married, and wants out. Drive-in Rating: Slow, proceed with caution. One of the lesser of the 60's rom-com romps. I don't get political and righteous about most films but I was hard-pressed not to as the plot entered the court room. Male judges, lawyers, and juries complaining about their over-bearing wives and calling for taking back their power as Jack Lemmon goes on trial for the presumed murder of his wife just rings a little false to this modern-day classic movie fan. Jack Lemmon plays his traditional role as well as he ever did and his leading lady, Virna Lisi, is indeed lovely as the Italian version of the dumb blonde. It at least presents a fun take on, "the butler did it," with Terry-Thomas playing the butler cheering on the wife's murder so he can return to his comfy life as Lemmon's butler.
Dave from Ottawa The success of Pillow Talk in 1959 ushered in a new era of sophisticated comedies, sexier than the ones of the 40s and usually set in upscale Manhattan. Many of these were actually more clever than funny (mostly because they tried to be tasteful and who really wants that in a farce?). This one still stands up today, and to repeated viewings.Bachelor and successful cartoonist Jack Lemmon gets drunk at a stag party and inadvertently marries beautiful Virna Lisi, who then proceeds to turn him into the classic emasculated husband at the urging of her 'well-meaning' female friends. His response is to use his cartoon strip to play out a fantasy murder. Things get complicated when the wife disappears and everybody thinks he did her in for real!Typical for the genre, the central situation is pretty far-fetched. Anybody who finds himself accidentally married to Virna Lisi should invest in lottery tickets, because he's on a lucky streak. And Lemmon's attachment to his New York bachelor lifestyle seems a bit quaint and dated when viewed from the post-sexual revolution world.Yet, the actors sell the contrived story well, with Terry Thomas being especially fun in the role of a rather misogynistic butler who eggs on Lemmon's murder fantasy. And to be fair the story line is well-worked out as a comedy farce, albeit along 60s sit-com lines. Ultimately it all works because it's just plain funny, with lots of witty material in evidence, especially during Lemmon's murder trial at the end, where he manages to put women and the institution of marriage on trial with him. Recommended.
Steven Ramirez 'How to Murder Your Wife' is an absolute gem from the early 1960s. It's also a time capsule since most people today cannot relate to the mores of that time. The premise of this story is that women are beautiful and conniving while men are "feeble-minded idiots." Consequently women can only be happy in marriage while men can only be happy being single.To me, this was a perfect vehicle for Jack Lemmon who in the character of Stanley Ford is surprisingly physical. Also it's a great companion to 'Lover Come Back,' 'A Guide for the Married Man' and the darker 'The Apartment'—also starring Jack Lemmon.I highly recommend this movie. After almost half a century it still holds up.

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