How to Murder Your Wife
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Movie Reviews of How to Murder Your Wife
Movie Review: Smart, funny, yet makes you think again
Summary: 5 Stars
A perfect Sunday morning movie, and one that is on my "best movies" list. The characters have been perfectly selected. When one looks around, one sees similar faces, with similar desires, problems and lives. Jack Lemmon portrays a character that many men relate to, admire, and perhaps long to be. His lifestyle is the perfect bachelor's lifestyle. Virna Lisi fits her role perfectly, her being pretty, sexy, innocent and on the road to the "promised land". Lemmon's manservant, Terry-Thomas, is right on the spot, and delightfully displays the bond between the knight and his right-hand man. But my favorite character is Edna. She is real, and she does what the Edna's in this world do. A bold new way to look at "the marital relationship". The "happy ending" appears to be politically correct, decades before that term has been forced down our throats. However, it cleverly "appears to be so", and the director succeeds in giving the message that the movie is meant to actually end at the conclusion of Jack Lemmon's trial. Viewers should pay particular attention to the "gym" and the "gentlemen's club". Many will draw parallel lines to their own environments. Some will re-consider their own lifestyle, and acknowledge what went wrong and where.Movie Review: Domestic bliss or a pot belly?
Summary: 5 Stars
Dash Branigan, secret agent, must stay in shape for the next caper; His only hope is to keep his creator, Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon), in shape. As with all ideal situations Stanley is single and has everything he wants. The efficient English man servant Charles (Terry Thomas) keeps his apartment tidy. Yes life is wonderful. Periodical he must return items to the women whom visits (and leaves.)
What ever you do, do not get too close to those pop-up cakes (the kind that have more than cake inside). Oops, too late for Stanley. Yep he did it. And marries the girl before he can stop himself. The real problem with domestic life is your belly goes to pot. Don't believe me? Look down.
From the title you have guest the perfect solution. As Stanley puts his thoughts to pen and paper in his comic strip, a plan forms and this same paper will be use as evidence when his wife (Virna Lisi) disappears. And everyone is looking at the "Gloppita-gloppita" machine
The trial scene is worth the film alone. And the outcome? Well you will just have to watch it your self.
A Guide for the Married Man
Movie Review: Beautifully politically incorrect
Summary: 5 Stars
Mr. Ford (Jack Lemmon), through his cartoon character (Bash Brannigan), finds himself not only married after a drunken bachelor party but also, starts reflecting on married life through his cartoon strip. His gentleman's gentleman, Charles (played to perfection by Terry Thomas) laments the ending of their masculine world and resigns. The problem is Mr. Ford's new wife is the exquisitely proportioned and delectable Virna Lisi. Mr. Ford meets Charles in a bar where the seed is sown for Bash Brannigan to murder his wife. What follows must be seen to be believed. This is 1960's comedy at its best, with a musical score to match. Jack Lemmon is terrific. The supporting cast, especially his attorney, are excellent counterpoints to the central protagonists (Mr. Ford and Charles), particularly in the concluding courtroom sequence. It's a superb film which tramples (unwittingly) over today's political correctness in matters of married life. But then, love can have many twists and turns.e-Dreams e-LOVEMovie Review: Best Wilder Film Billy Never Made
Summary: 5 Stars
Pay little heed to the title. This film is as macabre as "So I Married an Axe Murderer". Though some may dismiss the film as a tad misogynistic ultimately the film comes down firmly on the side of monogamy and commitment in relationships. Having been married a little less than two years after 43 years of unwedded bliss I can relate to the trials that Jack Lemmon's everyman cartoonist experiences during the initial stages of matrimony. The shocks are still a little raw. I can still remember my wife's insistence that I take my shoes off in the house or her horror over the shaving cream residue in the sink. I used to go to the movies at least once a week now I watch videos like "How To Murder Your Wife" at home. Regardless, it's a funny movie that singles can enjoy but married people will have a distinct recognition factor. The voluptuous Virna Lisi is a winsome object for Lemmon's anxieties. The irrepressible Terry-Thomas is great as Lemmon's man servant. I particularly liked Claire Trevor, one of filmdoms unsung legends despite her Oscar for "Key Largo", as Lemmon's lawyer's straight talking wife. Timeless comedy.Movie Review: "I'm sober as a judge"
Summary: 5 Stars
"How to Murder Your Wife" is by far the funniest 60's comedy I have seen. I thought the supporting cast was outstanding which included Claire Trevor, Terry Thomas (as Jack Lemmon's servent), and Jack Albertson (who had co-starred with Lemmon in "Days of Wine and Roses"). The two funniest scenes had to be when Lemmon has a bowl of tomato soup and he trips over the rug and it flies over Eddie Mayderoff and the other is when Lemmon talks to his servent at the bar and the way he says 'Murder!' to him about how to get rid of his wife (Virna Lisi does a good job) deserves a laugh and so does how the camera zooms in on his face (great cinematography by the way). The line in the title is what Mayderoff says to Lemmon and it has to be funnier than Dwayne Hickman saying to Jane Fonda in "Cat Ballou" which was 'I'm drunk as a skunk!' Above all, this was a good movie.