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How to Murder Your Wife

1965 · 118 min

A breezy, cheeky battle-of-the-sexes farce that coasts on charm and absurdity, with a courtroom climax that winks at the audience.

Directed by
Richard Quine
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Richard Quine
Genres
Comedy
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • gender
  • betrayal
  • love
  • identity
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour8
Realism6
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Richard Quine
Written by
George Axelrod
Starring
Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor, Sidney Blackmer, Max Showalter, Jack Albertson
Music
Neal Hefti
Cinematography
Harry Stradling Sr.
Runtime
118 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
Italian, English

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