Rotten
Finesse and desire aren't enough to overcome the fact that Axelrod's script doesn't make the most of its potentially antic situations.
Variety Staff, Variety
How to Murder Your Wife
Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!
1965 · 1h 58m · APPROVED
Comedy
Directed by
Richard Quine
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How to Murder Your Wife
Overview
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
Director and cast
- Richard Quine Director
- Jack Lemmon as Stanley Ford
- Virna Lisi as Mrs Ford
- Terry-Thomas as Charles
- Eddie Mayehoff as Harold Lampson
- Claire Trevor as Edna
- Sidney Blackmer as Judge Blackstone
- Max Showalter as Tobey Rawlins
- Jack Albertson as Dr. Bentley
- Mary Wickes as Harold's Secretary
- Khigh Dhiegh Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Believable or not, this stuff is funny just so long as one can go with the sour joke- -and that depends upon one's tolerance of trivia and also, perhaps, upon whether one is a fellow or a girl.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
A nimble comedy that doesn't make much sense because it makes nonsense, most of it screechingly funny and played by knockabouts who know that the slapstick was invented for keeping an idea aloft, not for beating it into the ground.
TIME Magazine
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