Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7896 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

Marvellous, wicked humour
This has Jack Lemmon and Terry Thomas at their best. The ideas in the movie are just superb and the whole film is sheer entertainment. The ending is as light as it gets without being cloying. A really amusing, absorbing film and a deserved classic.

How To Murder Your Wife
I disagree with the customer that said that "How To Murder Your Wife" is boreing, I have watched it many times over the years and always enjoy it, in fact I am updating my video copy to a DVD. Watch it you will love it, it makes a change from all the sex and violence films available nowdays.

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.