What a waste of my time!!!

Let's be realistic.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The late Walter Matthau is completely wasted in this unfunny film. Matthau made a name for himself in tour-de-force performances in for example "The Front Page" with Jack Lemmon and "The Fortune Cookie" to name only two. These were however directed by a master, the great Billy Wilder.This film goes to show Gene Kelly's inexperience as a director. He's a dancer for goodness sake , what was he thinking making this garbage. The script is also overly complicated and unfunny in the extreme.Matthau is completely miscast in this movie. The subtlety which he normally offers is not on show at all in this film and what results is a complete disaster for Matthau, turning in the worst performance of his career.Robert Morse over acts to the point of being so bad that his acting must rate as the worst on screen comedy performance of all time. This type of over acting would probably work better on stage than in a film. I don't think the director (Gene Kelly) told him this at the time. Morse sickeningly over acts and Matthau under acts! The only saving grace is the sexy Inger Stevens, although this is not supposed to be a porn picture, she is clearly naked underneath her see-thru nightdress in one scene, trying to entice Matthau. A fact which he completely ignores, preferring instead to lie in bed and read his book. Of course this is the only mildly amusing part of the movie, Matthau ignores his hot wife to run around with other less hot women. This is the ONLY joke in the whole movie that works! Although one joke and one good looking hot woman does not a movie make. It takes a good script, good acting and good directing as well, which this film is totally lacking.Inger Stevens was of course in real life a manic depressive who sadly took her own life. Which is the greatest tragedy in movie history, losing such a hot babe to suicide. Her depression was probably not helped much after seeing the daily's of this movie! What an awful awful film!

I think i know what this was intended to be. This story and editing should swing in front of your eyes the same way Gene Kelly used to wing, literally, dancing in his past musicals. I tender the idea, the man uses the image the public has of him, and tries to be coherent with it, behind the camera. The story is about swingers, guys who dance around adversities, schemes to fool their wives, that environment where adultery is fun, and the good guy never falls for it, because deep down, he'll fall for the truth of loving his wife. So we're constantly shifting sets, and than turning to those sets, introducing new characters, telling stories which we don't know for sure happened, and that is made in a kind of frantic (for those days) succession. Kelly tries hard to keep editing up with the story, and i appreciate the effort, but he is not skilled enough to do this properly. This same year, Stanley Donen directed one remarkable piece of filmaking, which i think is essential, 'Two for the Road', he tried similar stuff, but he succeeded in ways Kelly couldn't do. There, Donen managed to control editing and storytelling in coherence. These two minds had been responsible for a great experience, Singin' in the rain. By this film, and "two for the road", we understand they knew they could get somewhere else. Donen did it but this is just a try.My opinion: 2/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

Wow. We really HAVE come a long way, baby.This is a classic 1960s-style sex farce, with lots of close-ups of boobs and bums. We are supposed to be endlessly amused by the education in adultery given by Robert Morse to a seven-year-itchy Walter Matthau, despite his marriage to bombshell Inger Stevens. And we might be, if it weren't all made up of puerile sophomoric leering. This is "Porky's" for the adult set.What makes it worse is that Matthau's attempt at actual adultery is nipped in the bud, in the final scenes, by his triumphant devotion to his wife. This is textbook 1960 sex farce morality--lots of leering and innuendo before inevitably reinforcing conventional morality.Revolting.

"A Guide for the Married Man" is a top notch comedy starring Walter Matthau as a man who yearns to have an affair. Best friend Robert Morse teaches him the right ways and wrong ways of cheating. As Morse tells Matthau the audience is treated to a bevy of cameos by famous stars in short vignettes. Carl Reiner's bit comes off best and look for other famous faces including Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Phil Silvers and many more. The real joke of the movie is that Matthau is married to the totally gorgeous Inger Stevens. Most men wouldn't think twice about staying faithful to her. The performances are all good. Matthau is his usual terrific self and Morse nearly steals the movie. Inger Stevens (sadly in one of her last roles) had the talent to be a wonderful actress. The movie is amazingly sexy for 1967. Every woman in the film is sexy and each of them to dress to impress. It's a funny, sexy romp that adults should all enjoy.