How To Murder Your Wife - 1965 Comedy - Jack Lemmon

UPLOADERS NOTE � I do not yet qualify as an old fogey, but my attitude is getting there. As I look at pop culture, I do not think we have ever been quite as bad as we are now when it comes to crap passing for entertainment. The fact that even five people, much less millions, think that Will Ferrell or Jack Black are comedic geniuses is depressing to me. If anyone reading this is under about 30, take a stab at some of the great comedy films of the 60s and 70s � back when classically trained Oscar-winning actors who had quality direction and decent scripts churned out a few of the best ones ever made. Sure, they made crap back then too, but they called it a B movie and showed it on drive-in screens. Now, they write �vehicles� for Eddie Murphy. If your attention span still exists, try something with a little more substance. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058212/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Murder_Your_Wife http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/rambam1776/HowToMurderYourWife.jpg How to Murder Your Wife is a 1965 comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi. The film was directed by Richard Quine, who also directed Lemmon in My Sister Eileen, It Happened to Jane, Operation Mad Ball and Bell, Book and Candle. Plot summary Jack Lemmon plays handsome bachelor Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist who is happily unmarried and enjoying all the creature comforts one could desire, including a wonderful valet, Charles Firbank (Terry-Thomas), who takes care of all his material needs. Stanley lives a carefree life as a single man, attending wild parties and chasing attractive young women etc. However, fate soon intervenes: whilst attending a friend's bachelor party, Stanley becomes very drunk. When the would-be groom calls off his wedding, Stanley drunkenly proposes to a beautiful blonde Italian girl dressed in a swim-suit, who has just stepped out of a large cake. An equally drunken judge (Sidney Blackmer) at the party overhears Stanley's marriage proposal and obligingly performs an impromptu (but legally binding) wedding ceremony. Next morning, Stanley wakes up with a hangover. Lying in bed next to him is the beautiful woman (Lisi) who stepped out of the cake at the party. At first he remembers nothing of the previous night's events. Then, the awful truth begins to dawn on him. To make matters worse, his new wife speaks no English, which makes communicating with her something of a challenge. He tries to get the marriage annulled, but his lawyer informs him that this is impossible. Marriage takes Stanley's life and turns it completely upside down. His new wife quickly begins to make certain changes to his lifestyle which causes friction with Stanley's valet. Stanley even changes the cartoon he writes (Bash Brannigan) and shifts it from a secret agent to a household comedy. After becoming increasingly irritated by the various changes that marriage has made to his life, Stanley vents his frustrations by concocting a plot, in his daily comic strip at least, to kill his wife and dispose of the body "in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine". Stanley's wife sees the cartoon on his work-desk, takes offense and leaves without a trace. Questions are asked, and after reading the offending cartoon the police put two and two together and make five. Ford is quickly arrested and accused of murdering his wife and disposing of the body. His cartoons are used as prosecution evidence at the subsequent trial. After his attorney does a thoroughly incompetent job of defending him, Stanley fires him and defends himself. He ends up telling the jury that he did indeed murder his wife, and that they should acquit him on the grounds of justifiable homicide. The all-male jury is sympathetic because they themselves are frustrated at the way their respective wives have taken all the fun out of their lives. In a gesture of protest and defiance, the jury deliberately finds Stanley not guilty and he is acquitted, released and carried shoulder high out of the court room, whilst all the women look on in stony silence. The movie has a happy ending of sorts when Stanley's wife returns and they are reconciled. Stanley has gradually realised that he really does love his wife, and that life is far sweeter with her than without her. His disapproving butler Charles is introduced to her very attractive mother who, like Charles, has a space between her teeth. The underlying message is that love will conquer all. The comic strip The comic strip art in the film was credited to Mel Keefer. Alex Toth did a teaser comic that ran in the Hollywood Reporter and several newspapers for ten days as advertising for the film. Cast � Jack Lemmon as Stanley Ford � Virna Lisi as Mrs. Ford � Terry-Thomas as Charles Firbank � Eddie Mayehoff as Harold Lampson, Stanley's envious lawyer � Claire Trevor as Edna Lampson, Harold's shrewish wife � Mary Wickes as Harold's secretary � Jack Albertson as Dr. Bentley Trivia � Virna Lisi admitted that she had a big crush on Jack Lemmon and that she found it very easy to kiss and cuddle him in the film. These scenes happen a lot in the film as Lisi's character seems to be obsessed with her screen husband, played by Lemmon. Awards � Jack Lemmon won the Golden Laurel for Male Comedy Performance at the Laurel Awards. � Claire Trevor was nominated for Golden Laurel for Female Supporting Performance. � Jack Lemmon was also nominated for BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor. Cultural references � The film is referenced in Fawlty Towers in the episode The Wedding Party. � The "Gloppitta-Gloppitta Machine" (a cement-mixer outside the building in which Stanley Ford lives; it was thought to be the place where Ford "dumped" his wife's�non-existent�body) is often used by road work or DPW crews as a colloquialism for a cement-mixer, asphalt-mixer or anything of the like. � The subsequent cartoon character Zapp Brannigan acknowledges its source by its name if not otherwise.

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cachoulajaunie (2008-09-08)

Old fogey unite!!!! Thank you sir...

 rambam1776 (2008-09-09)

On my last couple of torrents, I?ve been getting requests for .SRT files. To be honest, I didn?t even know what the heck they were, much less how to make them. I did some digging and forum posting, and appear to have figured it out. It?s too late to include them in this torrent, but if you search my name , an independent torrent with them is available.

godswallops (2008-09-09)

This old fogey speaks English, so sub titles are not required. :)
Thanks, I enjoyed this movie immensely.
This move was released on my wife's birthday 26 Jan 1965) ... and now I have to explain why the coincidence exists!!! :D

YLeeKyoti (2008-10-24)

Now if someone can get the movie "Buddy Buddy" up here my old fogey self would be delighted.

 rambam1776 (2008-10-26)

According to Amazon, BUDDY BUDDY is only available as a used VHS tape. Not much I can do for you there.

Sherben (2008-11-12)

Excellent movie... thank you for offering it!

bongodrumzz (2009-01-17)

what can i say other than than thank you, thank you for recueing my own and others sense of humour, and im a devout T-T fan!

Flying_Thor_II (2009-01-24)

Ah lads you're being too hard on yourselves! You're not old fogey's, you just enjoy quality movies by quality actors! I just turned 25 but I've been watching these movies since I was 13. Very few movies released today come anywhere close to the standard of the older ones.
Great upload, thanks rambam!
P.S. You weren't born in 1776 were you? If you were I think you can officially call yourself an old fogey!

7.52 (2009-02-07)

I have to concur with rambam, the quality of our literature and entertainment today is so crappy it is actually getting scary. I find it hard to fault any American for being depressed. In between segments of shaved blondes and sex tapes you, my friends are not old. You simply have good taste.
If you like this movie you might like Ninotchka, Garbo's Magnum Opus

sillyd (2009-04-06)

Could anyone get the movie "It Happened to Jane" on here?

 big_dad_e (2009-08-27)

You're right rambam1776! I got misty eyed when Jack passed away.

FlashyVox (2009-12-12)

@YLeeKyoti
Here you go enjoy!

And thank's for this movie too!

abj642 (2011-04-02)

thanks rambam1776

MikeQuest333 (2011-06-02)

Hi,
though it says around 7 seeders but have not been able to download anything for past 2 days.
any inputs?
Mike

Gabri77 (2014-05-04)

Thank you!