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     How to Murder Your Wife
1965  NR  COMEDY  1h 58min
CAST— Jack Lemmon, Verna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor, Sidney Blackmer, Max Showalter, Jack Albertson, Mary Wickes
MUSIC— Neal Hefti  DIRECTOR— Richard Quine

     An irritating, sometimes infuriating little film about a devout bachelor who, after a drunken binge at a stag party, marries the girl who popped out of the cake. As charming as she is perky, the blushing bride (who is Italian, and doesn’t speak one syllable of English) gives the marriage her all and tries to make hubby happy, while he does nothing but try to come up with a reasonable excuse to dump her. After she leaves him everyone thinks that he murdered her and the film culminates with an absolutely appalling display of pig-headed male chauvinism as he tries to reason with the judge and jury. The overall effect of the film is a slimy, cold feeling and the putrid message it conveys is that women only get in the way of a man, except in the bedroom, and after that they should hit the road. A good performance by Verna Lisi, in her American film debut, is completely wasted among this sorry excuse for a comedy. She should have stayed in Italy.
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