How to Murder Your Wife Page #2

Synopsis: Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Richard Quine
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
APPROVED
Year:
1965
118 min
527 Views


and I knew damn well

that the microfilm wasn't hidden

in the diamond in the girl's navel.

By the way, uh...

they were really quite impressed.

I... I must say

I made quite a little character there,

being your lawyer and, you know, knowing

how the strip was coming out and all.

And, for a moment there,

they were actually...

well...

kind of proud of their old man.

Hey, Stan?

The girl doesn't have the microfilm

in the diamond in her navel, does she?

Honest to God, Stan,

you know you ought pull yourself together.

You've lost all touch with reality!

You know what you really should do? And Edna

and I were discussing this the other night.

What you should really do is settle down!

Find some nice girl and get married!

- Oh, ho-ho-ho.

- Yeah!

Then you'd know what it's all about!

Charles, you seem upset.

No, not at all, sir.

I'm sorry, sir.

I seem to be overcome

by a sense of foreboding.

- Foreboding?

- A feeling of...

How can I put it?

Impending disaster.

- Wait, I'll do that.

- Thank you.

I'm sure it's nothing.

It's my natural reaction to the unhappy

nature of the event you are attending.

To think of it.

A bachelor dinner for poor Mr Rawlins.

Is he really getting married tomorrow, sir?

Yes, I'm afraid so. Poor old Tobey...

You know, I never thought they'd nail him.

- I feel guilty about it, I introduced them.

- Mustn't blame yourself.

- He's a fully-grown man.

- That's true.

- And Miss James is a lovely lady.

- That's true.

Do you think she might need her gold shoes

for the wedding journey?

I think not.

Would you be good enough to extend

to Mr Rawlins my heartiest congratulations?

Of course. You needn't wait up.

You know how these things are.

I do, sir.

I do, indeed.

Good evening, Judge Blackstone.

This is a somewhat mournful occasion.

Not at all, my boy. Not at all.

Been married 38 years myself

and I don't regret one day of it.

The one day of it I don't regret was uh...

August 2, 1936.

She was off visiting

her ailing mother at the time.

Gentlemen, your attention, please!

Miss Valerie James...

A wonderful, wonderful girl, by the way.

- Hear! Hear!

- Thank you.

Miss Valerie James

has decided not to marry me after all!

She gave me back the ring.

# Happy days are here again

# The skies above are clear again

# Let us sing a song of cheer again

# Happy days are here again-ain

# Altogether shout it now

# There's no-one who can doubt it now

# So let's tell the world about it now

# Happy days are here again

# Your cares and troubles are gone

# There'll be no more from now on

# Happy days are here again

# The skies above are clear again

# Let us sing a song of cheer again

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George Axelrod

George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play, The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and also adapted Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). more…

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