How To Murder Your Wife

A great example of its time

This is the quintessential 60's light comedy, slick Hollywood at its best. Ardent feminists may get the vapours, but really it's just a product of its time, and well re-mastered too. Great performances - Lemmon in his prime, Terry-Thomas proving just how good he really was, and heaps of glamour and indeed talent from an exceptional supporting cast. Virna Lisi is the eye-candy, and a script by George Axelrod - it's a classic all round. No heavy political comment, but if you fancy a light frothy romp, you won't be disappointed.

[Highly rated reviewer]

A Laugh Feast

A star line-up of comedy performers make this film a frantic, hilarious laugh feast. Headed by Jack Lemmon and aided by his gentleman's gentleman Terry Thomas, his hen pecked lawyer Eddie Mayhoff and the hen who is pecking him Claire Trevor, taking time off from playing drunken tarts with hearts and his friendly physician Jack Albertson. A successful cartoonist (Lemmon) awakens after a stag party for a friend has gone pear shaped to find himself married to a gorgeous Italian girl (Virna Lisi) who came out of a cake. His cartoon character Private Eye Bash Brannigan turns from action man to overweight, out of condition hen pecked husband as does the cartoonist. The comedy centre around his attempts to get rid of his wife, even contemplating - murder!