How To Murder Your Wife Details

Confirmed bachelor Jack Lemmon wakes up after a night on the town married to luscious Virna Lisi, much to the dismay of his faithful butler Terry-Thomas, in director Richard Quine's brilliant politically incorrect comedy scripted by producer George Axelrod. Thereafter, strip-cartoonist Lemmon's action-man character Bash Brannigan becomes cosily domesticated. To placate his fans, who want Brannigan restored to bachelorhood, Lemmon kills off his cartoon hero's wife; but then Lisi disappears and Lemmon finds himself accused of murder. Scenes to cherish involve the “galopita-galopita” machine and the courtroom pressing of an imaginary button, while the long-married double act of Eddie Mayehoff and Claire Trevor shows just how far the battle of the sexes can go and still keep us laughing.

Amusing preliminaries give way to dreary plot complications and an overlong courtroom scene. Leave after the first hour.