How to Murder Your Wife
1965 · Movie · NR · 118 min · ★ 6.3 · 69% critics
A successful bachelor cartoonist wakes up after a wild night to discover he’s married to a beautiful stranger who doesn’t speak his language. As he tries to adjust, his home life starts reshaping his comic strip and his carefully controlled routine, pulling him into escalating misunderstandings and public trouble.
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Details
- Years
- 1965
- Release date
- 1965-01-26
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 69/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (148 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re in the mood for a 1960s, upscale battle-of-the-sexes farce with broad misunderstandings and a darkly comic edge, somewhat like It Happened to Jane; Not for you if dated gender politics bother you.
Pros: playful farce premise; lively supporting characters; memorable courtroom stretch | Cons: dated sexist humor; uneven laughs; overlong and repetitive
Cast & crew
Jack Lemmon
as Stanley Ford
Virna Lisi
as Mrs. Ford
Terry-Thomas
as Charles
Eddie Mayehoff
as Harold Lampson
Claire Trevor
as Edna
Sidney Blackmer
as Judge Blackstone
Max Showalter
as Tobey Rawlins
Jack Albertson
as Dr. Bentley
Mary Wickes
as Harold's Secretary
Alan Hewitt
as District Attorney
Directed by Richard Quine