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How to Murder Your Wife
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
1965 · Directed by Richard Quine · 118 min · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!
Crew
- Written by: George Axelrod
- Cinematography: Harry Stradling Sr.
- Edited by: David Wages
- Music: Neal Hefti
- Production design: Richard Sylbert
- Produced by: George Axelrod
Cast
- 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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Italian, English
- Studios: Murder Inc.
- Box office: $12,000,000
- Themes: bachelor, pretended murder, dark comedy, stripper, breaking the fourth wall, valet, courtroom, male camaraderie, drugged drink, comic strip artist
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