Best movie of this year hands down!

Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

How to Murder Your Wife (1965)Jack Lemmon is sharp and almost single handedly keeps this deliberate farce from falling completely apart. It's a slick production, very well filmed, but it's also mindlessly sexist from our point of view, and downright stupid at times, too, for other reasons.That's why a lot of people like it. This is really the flip side to the 1960s, pre-Woodstock. As a kind of set-up for this you might watch the truly amazing 1960 Jack Lemmon movie, "The Apartment," which has different stylistic intentions but has an odd overlap in plot. In both movies Lemmon plays a bachelor in corporate America when a woman unexpectedly enters his life, and his living space. But how different could two movies be in how this is handled? The earlier one, a masterpiece by Billy Wilder, is about both the shenanigans of the white collar set, and the boorish sexism they drag with them and about an alternative, in Lemmon's character, finding genuine human affection and standing up for what he feels. In this later movie Lemmon's character is just as silly as his peers, and the scenes are variations of girl watching and comic sexing up of this man's manly world.Granted, this is a comedy, and a clever one. The odd hook is our hero is a popular comic strip artist, and when he gets an idea he enacts it in detail with his butler taking pictures of the scenes. That way he gets fresh ideas on how to illustrate the crazy events, but of course he also has to pretend to do some crazy stuff in public. It's pretty hilarious on that level, and when the problem of the woman enters the equation, he tries to turn it into material for his comics. That works for awhile.The actors around Lemmon are not all convincing, though his butler is rather wonderfully affected. The women, not surprisingly, are all pretty shallow and decorative, the main one being a true Italian import, the actress Virna Lisi, who thankfully did mostly Italian movies before drifting into television. She is meant to be a Marilyn Monroe look-alike and does pretty well at it, but you do wonder what we need a Marilyn Monroe look-alike for three years after her death.Anyway, this kind of movie is an acquired taste, and I'm drifting more and more away from this style, having seen a dozen or so in the last few months. Luckily the Netflix version is nice and sharp and is full widescreen. I just can't do as another reviewer wrote, "I laugh I lust," and so I'm maybe unqualified to enjoy this movie, whatever its comedic charms.

Plot: Confirmed bachelor gets drunk, gets married, and wants out. Drive-in Rating: Slow, proceed with caution. One of the lesser of the 60's rom-com romps. I don't get political and righteous about most films but I was hard-pressed not to as the plot entered the court room. Male judges, lawyers, and juries complaining about their over-bearing wives and calling for taking back their power as Jack Lemmon goes on trial for the presumed murder of his wife just rings a little false to this modern-day classic movie fan. Jack Lemmon plays his traditional role as well as he ever did and his leading lady, Virna Lisi, is indeed lovely as the Italian version of the dumb blonde. It at least presents a fun take on, "the butler did it," with Terry-Thomas playing the butler cheering on the wife's murder so he can return to his comfy life as Lemmon's butler.

One fine day Jack Lemmon, an American Bertie Wooster who earns a living as a cartoonist finds himself married to the gorgeous Virna Lisi. It's such a shock that his Jeeves played by Terry-Thomas walks out on him. But that's only the beginning of Lemmon's troubles.As P.G. Wodehouse was still alive when this film came it would be interesting to speculate what he thought of it. Probably not all that much. Certainly he never considered a libel suit for ripping off his famous fictional pair, he probably though that a suit would give the film unwanted publicity.It's not that How To Murder Your Wife is a horrible film, but a great cast was assembled and it laid an ostrich size omelet in an attempt to be satirical.Lemmon goes to a bachelor party in which the gorgeous Lisi pops out of a cake and dances. The next day he wakes up with her, but unlike in the past, there's a little gold band on his finger. Terry-Thomas has been used to Lemmon's women, but he's got a firm rule against working for married people. Jeeves I'm sure would concur.If you're going to be married why not enjoy it if it's to Virna Lisi. But she's cramping his style and he takes his frustration out in his cartoon strip. Later when Lisi discovers she's his literary inspiration for fictional homicide, she walks out and Lemmon's accused of her real murder.Eddie Mayehoff and Claire Trevor play Lemmon's married friends and Trevor tries to help Lisi with her English. She in turn helps Trevor loosen up. That particular scene is the best in the film.Lemmon wasn't particularly crazy about this film and I can see why. Still for Jack Lemmon fans it shouldn't be missed. The film could have used a lot more of Terry-Thomas.

I'm a big fan of 60's movies - they remind me of my preteen years. I was born in 1960, and watching 60's movies, particularly with Jack Lemmon, is fun. But despite Jack saying this was the best one he did with Director Quine, I wouldn't recommend it. Now I'm wondering, if Jack said this is the BEST ONE, how tedious must the other five movies he did with Quine be!?! This movie is about 30 minutes TOO LONG. There's a lot of filler here - you could boil it down to about 80 minutes and still get the gist of things. Forget about it being politically incorrect - it's a period piece. But it gets bogged down with diversions that don't move the story along. I love Jack Lemmon, but you've got to be VERY patient with this movie to get any enjoyment out of it.