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Summary: A movie every man should see!
Review: A funny, clever movie about a man who has it all and then love/sex falls into his lap! It scares the hell out of him so he decides to get rid of his wife. A delicious movie to watch as it's lighthearted and amusing since of course, nothing bad really happens. Terry Thomas is great!
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Summary: Domestic bliss or a pot belly?
Review: Dash Branigan (secret agent) must stay in shape for the next caper. His only hope is to keep his creator (Stanley Ford) in shape. As with all ideal situations Stanley is single and has everything he wants. The efficient 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. Oops, too late for Stanley. Yep he did it. 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 she disappears. The trial scene is worth the film alone. And the outcome? Well you will just have to watch it your self.
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Summary: Verry funny and with an Italian twist.
Review: I believe that this is my favorite Jack Lemmon movie. Jack plays a confirmed bachelor who has a very ordered life until he meets Verna Lisi who turns his whole world upside down. He tries to change things but in the end is very happy. It really has nothing to do with the murder of his own wife.
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Summary: This movie always make me laugh
Review: I've seen this movie at least 6 times. When channel surfing, this movie will win out over almost any other movie or program. The witty dialog, engaging characters and wonderful sets really make this a great movie. Watch it alone or with friends. You won't be sorry!
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Summary: Best courtroom scene, ever
Review: I've yet to see anyone who did not almost end up on the floor during the courtoom scene near the end of this film. Meyehoff gives a classic performance as a man who is cross-examined into (maybe) pushing a little imaginary button that would--at least in his imagination--bump off his wife. That scene is worth the whole movie. And it's not a bad film at all. Jack Lemmon is his usual early '60's frenetic self.
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Summary: A fun movie; nothing too serious; 3 1/2 stars
Review: If you like Jack Lemmon, this is a fun movie. If you do not, then it's an average film. The sexy italian blonde looks much better on the screen than on this cover. In fact, there are a lot of good looking women in this movie so that's a plus for men so inclined. Story follows a cartoonist who ends up marrying an Italian immigrant girl who seduced him during a bachelor party after she jumped out of a cake. Her eyes are played out as being magical. Sort of funny . . . cute plot . . . a few good twists. Interesting court scene. I won't spoil the ending.
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Summary: A guy thing...and loads of fun...
Review: In our PC society, I can still look back and grin affecionately, considering that this film was made at a time when "battle-of-the-sexes" humor was at a peak (Doris Day, anyone?) Lemmon's a natural, and Terry-Thomas actually steals the film for that reason. Fairly formulaic, the men are made to look more idiotic than the women, though if anyone wants to take issue, check out Claire Trevor's manipulative harpee witch. Virna Lisi is, indeed, stunningly gorgeous, and very endearing. This is a "nice" movie; not a great one, nor one that lives on in history. It has Lemmon, Terry-Thomas, Lisi, Trevor, Eddie Mayehoff (a riot), and should be taken for exactly what it is: a fun, mindless romp that entertains. Lighten up. I still think this should've been nominated for Sound Effects...I never forgot the "Gloppita-gloppita" machine. Don't judge; enjoy!
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Summary: Absolutly Hilarious!
Review: In this film, Jack Lemmon plays Mr. Ford, who is VERY happy to be a bachelor. However, at a party for one of his soon to be married friends, Jack meets, falls in love with, and marries a girl who pops out of a cake while he is intoxicated. In the morning, Mr. Ford discovers that he is married and the two encounter a bevy of problems. I reccomend this film to anyone.
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Summary: How to murder your wife
Review: Jack Lemmon is Mr. Stanley Ford, a cartoonist who lives vicariously through his creation, secret agent Bash Brannigan. He shares a large bachelor pad with butler and confidant Charles, and has no intention of ever tying the knot. After a few too many drinks at a friend's bachelor party, Ford forgets that lack of intention and wakes up a married man. His new wife is an exotic Italian who doesn't speak a lick of English. Yikes! Fearing for his life and Charles's disapproval, he rushes to his lawyer's office set on getting a divorce. That's until his Italian beauty gives him that wanting gaze and insists that in Italy there is no such thing as divorce. So what happens next? Bash Brannigan weds, unhappily. Ford's secret agent is no longer fighting terrorists, but is instead trying to come up with the perfect scheme to murder his wife. Unbeknownst to Mrs. Ford, her husband is sharing his frustrations and annoyances through his cartoon. But as all you men know, it's hard to keep something hidden from a woman, and his wife eventually happens upon a comic and finds out what he's been writing about. Will she put the word divorce into the Italian dictionary, or will Ford find that a loving wife and a happy marriage isn't so bad after all?
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Summary: It's a men's joke!
Review: Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a popular cartoonist. 463 newspapers buy "The adventures of Bash Brannigan" because they know their author draws on real-life experience. His lawyer Harold (Eddie Mayehoff) gives free vent to his moral indignation: "pornography! violence! sadism!" but Stanley remains complacent: " I never asked Bash to do anything I haven't done myself". He is immune to Harold's sermon who can't wait to see him henpecked. But Stanley has perfected the skill of lying in a woman's arms without falling in her hands. He owns a luxurious townhouse in New York and Charles (Terry-Thomas), his distinguished and stuck-up butler (He calls himself "Mr. Ford's man") runs the household, awakes him, escorts him to the shower, weighs him out (160 pounds) and prepares healthy meals. In short: Stanley leads the life that readers of the "Playboy magazine" dream of. One day he goes to a friend's wedding (The bride forgot her shoes in Stanley's bedroom), but the wedding he celebrates instead is his own: He wakes up with a hangover and discovers that he married the girl who jumped out of the wedding cake (Virna Lisi). Since the new Mrs. Ford has assets (she took part in a beauty contest) he tries to break the news gently to her: he wants a divorce...Mrs. Ford is amused to see his pantomime: She does not understand one word because she comes from Italy...Harold is delighted and lists Stanley's obligations:"You got to make a new will...health check...insurance". Harold's wife Edna (Claire Trevor) informs Mrs. Ford that she is entitled to a mink-coat, a pet-dog and her husband's credit card. Charles has dark forebodings. The foundations of his cosmic system are shaken when his new lady takes possession of her house. Duel in the kitchen: Charles is calories-conscÃous, Mrs. Ford prepares lasagne-souffle with a pound of butter. Both wait for their lord and master to pass his judgment. Stanley settles on the souffle - and forfeits his butler. Stanley's comic-strip hero follows his creator's example: "Yes (Gulp)" says the bridegroom. "He He" says the bride. Mrs. Ford's qualities do not miss their fire. Still. Stanley's home becomes a boudoir. He develops a paunch - his appetite is good. She makes a do-it-yourselfer out of him and a sissy and she controls his liquor-ration. Goaded by Edna she inspects her husband in his no-ladies-allowed-club and startles some half-naked men in the sauna. Her contrition comes too late: Stanley decides to free not himself but his comic-strip hero from the manacles of matrimony. He smuggles the prototype of an ecstasy-pill in his wife's drink. Brrrp! and she is dancing on the table. Blaaap! and he drags her off on his shoulder. Yes, and then he commits his "murder": He throws a dummy in the gloppeta-machine and buries it in cement. His wife sees his new Bash Brannigan cartoon and gathers that he is longing for her death... A deeply moving moment all the more effective because it comes unexpected. This film is the best sex-comedy in a series that started 1959 with PILLOW TALK and ended 1965 with THE GREAT RACE. These films were demonised and nagged to death by calamity-howlers who could not endure the sight of a happy audience. I was never offended by the alleged "sexism" - why shouldn't women be capable to take a men's joke with humor? The plot is a yarn, the courtroom scene a classic, the score Neil Hefti's best and the acting fantastic. This is the one film where Jack Lemmon has the opportunity to play the playboy - and he does so with boundless relish. Irrepressible, undaunted and with his unmistakable sense of humor. And he did all the stunts himself! Virna Lisi is irresistible as his fond appendage who coddles her husband until he becomes a softie. The only objectionable point is the mistreatment of sympathetic Claire Trevor (STAGECOACH, KEY LARGO). But, as Orson Welles once said: "Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame".
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