How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

Cast

Jack Lemmon
as Stanley Ford
Mary Wickes
as Harold's Secretary
Jack Albertson
as Dr. Bentley
Claire Trevor
as Edna

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy

6.6 / 10

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. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder.

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Mark Richard Beaulieu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eF-f_H2zI0&t=4s - @Sunday, July 29, 2018 1:20 AM

Nigel 900

Class act. - @Monday, October 9, 2017 2:36 PM

BillSU77

An absolutely divine comedy with Virna Lisi at prime a very, very beautiful woman. Waytch it again and again and again.:) - @Saturday, August 19, 2017 3:45 AM

ked4

GOOD SHOW SIR. ABSOLUTELY BANG ON - @Tuesday, August 16, 2016 9:11 AM

Ricardo Velasco

"…This is Mister Ford's Shower…". "Shower" was Terry-Thomas's favourite Word (as in: "You are an absolute Shower!"). - @Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:17 PM

TheCatgirl6

Agree--there is a very cool and sexy, "Playboy After Dark" vibe to this film and it's felt especially in the classy opening credits. - @Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:06 AM

TheCatgirl6

Ah, BuckieBear--you were not made for this era, I think. ;-) - @Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:03 AM

TheCatgirl6

Indeed. - @Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:00 AM

BuckieBear

I also love seeing the names and positions of all the people who worked on this film built into the beginning scenes as stylishly as they are. The music that Neal Hefti composed for it is fantastic. - @Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:56 PM

BuckieBear

NEVER 'grow up' (entirely, inside, at least) - @Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:37 PM

BuckieBear

I'm a woman, by the way, and the title of the movie is a bit..unfortunate...but in the context of the movie, it's just part of the overall satire of this film. The beauty in this film, and its insight in to the ironies of Life, is overwhelmingly wonderful. - @Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:36 PM

BuckieBear

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! The beginning of this movie, itself, is so wonderful that I could watch it again and again (which is easier now that you have uploaded it, this way!)!! The entire movie, itself, is fabulous! First saw this at 15 (along with hearing Mr. Hefti's version of "Girl Talk" and Jack Jones' "(Wives Should Always Be Lovers, Too) Wives And Lovers"--all came out at about that time--all of which contributed to my view that things can be wonderful it one works at it. - @Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:32 PM

Lady Diana

Has anyone else noticed how many times the woman in the red skirt passes by Mr. Ford's building? Also, Mary Wickes cracks me up as Harold Lampson's secretary! - @Sunday, September 8, 2013 3:30 PM

Lady Diana

I LOVE this movie! From Charles's monologue through to the very end you will be charmed by this movie. I love Jack Lemmon in all of his movies, but especially this one. He even claimed that it was his personal favorite. The soundtrack is great, but hard to find, and when you do it is either on vinyl or on a very expensive cd along with the soundtrack to a very obscure movie. Neal Hefti is very underrated composer, who wrote some of the most memorable movie and television theme songs ever. - @Sunday, September 8, 2013 2:58 PM

Mike Young

A buddy and I went to see it at the Rialto in Macomb IL when I was 17. It was definitely NOT a "date flick!" - @Sunday, September 1, 2013 6:15 PM

Lachlann Ban

Loved this movie, the music, Terry Thomas and the stylish era of the sixties...... - @Thursday, March 28, 2013 7:47 AM

#Gaia Girl #Patchumumma Sally Jane Delaney

fascinates me that the wtc twin towers were being built at this time ! - @Tuesday, March 5, 2013 12:24 PM

nicknorthable

Saw this movie when it came out .Love this theme song.Sat through the show three times so I could here this beginning.At 12 years old I wanted to be just like Mr. Ford.Never forgot it.Thanks for posting. - @Monday, September 17, 2012 5:36 AM

Pete Jones

unapologetic male entitlement. Yeah, it's too bad we lost that. As Terry says it' "Gracious Living", nothing to apologize for just because Lemmon's character is a bachfelor. I can see the title being offensive to women. This used to come on 'free' tv back in the 70s and 80s. No woman get's hurt in this, Virna Lisi is treated like a goddess by Jack Lemmon and after all the comic goings-on by the end Terry himself has a girl of his own. Enjoy! - @Saturday, September 15, 2012 2:31 AM

TheCatgirl6

Well, perhaps "frothy" was the wrong descriptive. :-) I agree there is a serious subtext there, although I don't think we draw the same conclusions as to what it is. But if you've watched "Mad Men" you may get what I mean."How To Murder Your Wife" was conceived in an era of unapologetic male entitlement; were it made today its motives would be questioned and the "everyone has to grow up sometime" explanation, while plausible, might not be so easily accepted. - @Thursday, September 6, 2012 2:27 PM

Lytton333

If by 'frothy' you mean somewhat frivolous, then surely a significant element (that isn't obsessively violent) of Hollywood's output these days is so frothy that it resembles a bubble-bath left running for two days.. They can't be pulled off either. This film does have something serious to say underneath the foam.. Like his aspirant but distant cousin 'Alfie' (also made in the same year), it suggests that a frivolous lifestyle cannot last forever, One eventually has to 'grow up'. - @Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:04 AM

Lytton333

You're right! - @Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:55 AM

silvernail6

In my top 5.....went to see it at a drive-in w/the family...my mom didn't seem very entertained whereas my old man was whooping it up. Others have mentioned the score and I'll just say every so often I'll just start humming it to myself.....Glop-e-da-Glop-e-da..LOL...The courtroom scene is great....but for the eagle-eyed;pay attention to Lemmon while scaling the high rises and note a skyscraper w/the numbers 666 in red. I am serious. - @Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:01 AM

TheCatgirl6

@odannyboj Yes, well, I'm sure the producer hoped we view it that way... And in that earlier, blithely chauvinistic era I suppose we could accept that premise at face value, and did. I'm sure audiences of the day--the ones who weren't women whose husbands really were trying to kill them, I mean--certainly did. I like the movie--Lisi is drop dead (sorry) gorgeous and Lemmon is hysterical--but it's a particular kind of frothy filmmaking that can't be pulled off so easily now. - @Friday, December 23, 2011 4:48 AM

YRRAL1969

One of my all time favorite films ! Terry Thomas was a perfect piece of casting ! - @Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:15 AM

John Doe

My favorite movie. Terry Thomas is at his best from the gap in his teeth right down to the Bevan Funnell campaign chest in his room. The music at the beginning is wonderful. - @Friday, March 11, 2011 12:27 AM

TheCatgirl6

Such elegant work--love the production values and the score. Being a girl, this movie will always make me squirm a bit, it's so gleefully misogynistic. Especially post-OJ it's hard to know where to place this as entertainment... but I love Jack Lemmon (and Terry-Thomas) and they were terrific together in this waggish comedy, a product of (in theory at least) a more innocent America. - @Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:52 PM

Dancingwithotters

Thank you so much for the upload mate. Comedy at its best. - @Saturday, March 6, 2010 9:53 PM