Despite the script's cleverness, the presence of Tom Ewell, who is a first rate comedian and Oscar Homolka, who has long been a first rate actor, the entire film continually misses fire and fizzles out, like defective fireworks.
The Seven Year Itch
It TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began!
1955 · 1h 45m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
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The Seven Year Itch
Overview
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Marilyn Monroe as The Girl
- Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
- Evelyn Keyes as Helen Sherman
- Sonny Tufts as Tom MacKenzie
- Robert Strauss as M. Kruhulik
- Oscar Homolka as Dr. Brubaker
- Oskar Homolka as Dr. Brubaker
- Marguerite Chapman as Miss Morris
- Victor Moore as Plumber
- Donald MacBride as M. Brady
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
What counts is that laughs come thick and fast, that the general entertainment is light and gay.
Although it was directed by Billy Wilder, this 1955 CinemaScope classic sometimes seems presided over by Frank Tashlin, with its satire of 50s puritanism and its use of wimpy Tom Ewell.
Monroe flaunts her attributes too blatantly, and seems less human because of it, while George Axelrod's play, fresh and risque in the '50s, now appears a little obvious and over-plotted.
So arresting is Monroe's presence that when she's not on-screen, we wait impatiently, wondering, Where have you gone, Mrs. DiMaggio?
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