How to Murder Your Wife
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Movie Reviews of How to Murder Your Wife
Movie Review: Cute Movie, but Not Lemmon's Best.
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, I like How to Murder Your Wife, but found the beginning to be as dull as a twice burnt candle. Only when cartooonist/playboy Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) meets the beautiful Italian girl (Virna Lisi) who pops out of the cake at a friend's bachelor party do things begin to pick up. You will have to wait a half-hour while his lawyer friend tells him how immature he is to be writing a comic strip at 37 years old just because he's been listening to his wife too much. After seeing his lawyer's wife for a mere 3 minutes, you can understand why Stanley is a bachelor and his butler (Terry Thomas) approves. I'm a woman and I approve!
Somehow Stanley has not only woken up with the girl in the cake, but he also discovers that they have gotten married! Worst of all? She only speaks Italian which Stanley's lawyer's obnoxious wife knows almost fluently, and begins to teach her how to be a harpie as well. Just like Stanley, I liked her better before wifey-poo got a hold of her and started her sleeping with rollers in her hair and bossing him around. If anything, this movie helps you to understand why men like being single and, yes, for a change I'm on their side!
Stanley doesn't want to be married, and he makes his caricature Bash Brannigan suffer his unfortunate homelife situations. Ironically, his male dominated comic strip becomes a successful family affair and readership picks up. He's not happy, however, and unleashes the ultimate plan he cannot carry out in real life: Bash will murder his freedom stifling wife and dump her body into the "gloppita-gloppita" machine. Funny thing though; Mrs. Ford really does disappear, and Stanley is brought up on trial for murder though they can't find her body! The results of the case are sympathetically histerical, but I won't give the ending away.
I need to point out that, unlike the lawyer's hack wife, Virna Lisi's character as Mrs. Ford is sweet, endearing, and gorgeous, yet she's funny without even trying. You just root for her because she means well in spite of the "evil" lawyer wife influence. Why do I hate that woman so much? She tells Stanley's new bride to play head games and this, more than anything, angers me: She informs her that neither party can hear the other in seperate rooms, yet plays a game with him in which she says she heard him say something derogatory. "See that?" she says triumphantly to Stanley's new wife. "They're always feeling guilty about something!" This old biddie gives women a bad rap way back to the cave days! Fortunately, Stanley is a very lucky man that his foreign wife can think for herself once the smoke clears. I also adore her little yorkshire terrier puppy who looks like one I used to have!
Yes, this movie is entertaining and cute after the first half-hour, and it has its charms but, while I would watch it again, I wouldn't buy it. Of all Lemmon's films, I much prefer The Apartment or The Days of Wine and Roses.
Movie Review: How To Murder Your Wife
Summary: 3 Stars
Jack Lemmon is a Matt Helm type of guy with an English Butler. He writes a comic strip and draws it from photos the Bulter takes of him acting the plot out. It's not Oscar material, but a different story line and some really funny spots. I enjoy watching it, and it is an old enough movie that you don't have to put up with dirty language.