I love this movie so much

Powerful

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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

The confirmed bachelor Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a successful cartoonist of the comic strip Bash Brannigan published in 463 newspaper. He lives in Manhattan with his butler Charles (Terry-Thomas), who is proud of his master´s lifestyle. One day, Stanley attends a bachelor party where he drinks too much. On the next morning, there is a ravishing Italian blonde (Virna Lisi) naked in his bed and soon he learns that he got married with her last night. Stanley heads to his lawyer´s office to divorce Mrs. Ford but his lawyer Harold Lampson (Eddie Mayehoff) advises that it is not an easy task. Stanley´s life turns upside-down, and he plots to murder his wife. When Mrs. Ford learns his intention, she vanishes and Stanley is accused of murdering his wife and hiding her body. What will happen to him?"How to Murder Your Wife" is a funny 1965 comedy that makes the male viewer laugh of the situations. Jack Lemmon performs a confirmed bachelor and male chauvinist. Virna Lisi is extremely beautiful and sexy and disturbs his controlled life. The moralist conclusion ruins the storyline and is absolutely inconsistent to Stanley Ford´s behavior. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Como Matar Sua Esposa" ("How to Murder Your Wife")

How To Murder Your Wife ( HTMYW) is not a movie to be taken seriously. It is a spoof of spy movies and sex comedies. . I can imagine there would be a lot of women who would not care for this movie ( and a lot of guys who do ( myself included)). It's about a cartoonist named Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) who gets drunk and marries the girl who comes out of the cake ( the luscious Virna Lisi). Here is the thing: Lisi ( who as an Italian speaks no English) actually takes good care of Stanley ( if the writers wanted to be nasty, they could have made her a shrew ( like his lawyer's wife played by Claire Trevor)). Spoilers ahead: What it is about is killing his wife in a comic strip so the character can go back to being a spy. For that reason Stanley gets indicted for killing his wife ( she actually ran away because she ( like everyone else) thinks he will kill her). He admits to killing her, but gets acquitted ( to send a message to the jurors wives). What is important is Stanley really loves his wife which he admitted to his nasty woman hating butler ( Terry-Thomas) who along with Lisi ( for different reasons of course) steals the movie. Lisi's character who is called "Mrs. Ford ( you never learn her first name), eventually wins the battle of the sexes because even Terry-Thomas says "If he ( Stanley) can stand her, so can I." He then meets her mom and falls for her. What is important is almost any guy would love to be with Virna Lisa ( think Marilyn Monroe meets Sophia Loren), but she is actually decent ( she will not sleep with him at the end without the ring on her finger ( which he has)), and actually makes his life better ( even though she gets him kicked out of his men's only club by showing up there), and has him gain weight. What you see throughout the movie is a lot of unhappy men who picked the wrong woman ( since all are successful ( except the jurors), it makes you think they married not out of love but for social status) so they are miserable ( that is why they join clubs to get away from them). Stanley ends up with an entirely different kind of woman and learns to love her because of who she is. Besides if the choice is getting drunk with the guys or spending the night with Virna Lisi, the choice is very easy. 10/10 stars.

Oh Dear, go at the end of the reviews and you will see the feminist reviews blaming this movie for all the women's suffering of the world, or even being gay, or simply illogical in some aspects. Now if like me you are a relatively happy married fellow with some basic desire to be respected in our masculinity, if you see no gay tendency for having a butler or for going to a male only gym and massage session (like many Asian gentlemen still indulge in), and if you see with both happiness and inquietude your tummy increasing from eating your wife's delicious food (yes, it still happens that women can cook and care), then you will enjoy it! I really enjoy the idea of a gentleman club, with healthy gym and a bit of a drinks later. It would be such a relief from our daily concerns, it would allow some socializing and contrary to what some ill-intended feminists may think, a no-lady-accepted club is the guarantee to wives that their husband does not get miscarried by extra-marital adventures. Allowing men to go there, only once a week, would be beneficial to everyone. Of course it will not happen: men have to baby-sit, cook, work hard, help to the house-core, and are only sometimes allow to watch a stupid game on TV while eating a popcorn bag and drinking a cheap beer. The movie depicts the time of good old fellows, talking civilized English, drinking a chilled martini, and singing good men songs while drunk instead of vomiting obscenities out of a bar. Let us go back to this good old time, which was not good for everyone... but let us enjoy it, just once, and laugh about it!

I personally enjoyed this film. It is overlong I agree and one or two scenes in the final act are a little tedious, however I love how brilliantly politically incorrect it is. It is also very funny, with some great dialogue that really sparkles and some truly funny scenes such as the galopita-galopita machine and the courtroom pressing of an imaginary button. The direction is fun as is the well-written story, and the cinematography, costumes and scenery are top notch. And the music is a fun and quirky touch, while the acting adds a lot to the fun. Jack Lemmon is believable in the lead, while Virna Lisi is very luscious as his wife. Terry-Thomas adeptly displays his dismay as the faithful butler after Lemmon's character who was a confirmed bachelor wakes up married after a night on the town, and Eddie Mayhoff and Claire Trevor show how far the battle of the sexes can go and still make us laugh(and keep it that way). Overall, it is a very good film. 8/10 Bethany Cox