Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8579 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-01-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 114 minutes

Synopsis
Cartoonist Stanley Ford, a confirmed bachelor, attends a party one evening... and is bewitched by a blonde Italian knockout who pops out of a cake. Then he does a very stupid thing. He marries her on the spot. Though his new wife is a happy homemaker, a man's man like Stanley has no stomach for domestic bliss. When his attempts at separation fail, he gets an idea. Known for always acting out his hero's scenarios before putting ink to page, he stages her murder and sketches a cartoon based on the scheme. When his wife sees the funny pages, she is frightened and vanishes. Mission accomplished. Not so fast, however, as the police appear and now want to ask him a few questions about his wife's whereabouts...

Customer Reviews

Pure entertainment!
Just sit back relax and enjoy this simple good old fashioned entertaining film. Cleverly constructed, beautifully played. Cant say much more than that.

Domestic bliss or a pot belly?
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 his wife (Virna Lisi) disappears.

The trial scene is worth the film alone. And the outcome? Well you will just have to watch it your self.

Misogamy Unbound
I don't know how women respond to this wickedly funny perspective on marriage, but it should strike a chord with most men. But there are two teensy flaws.

1) While it makes a lot of sense for one of the most beautiful and seductive actresses ever, Virna Lisi, to be cast so that she can be leered at, would any man want to rid himself of her?

2) Even at his most dapper, is Jack Lemmon really the type of man who, as a bachelor, can attract a field full of Virna Lisi's? Shouldn't he be grateful for just one?

Otherwise, it is an honest look at men's inner cynic -- set to comedy so that women will think it's just a lark. Conversely, it's a blood stirring introduction to Virna Lisi -- a man-trap if there ever was one.