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How to Murder Your Wife (1965) was a Comedy Film directed by Richard Quine and produced by George Axelrod and Gordon Carroll.

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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

on Sep 18, 2015 From Journeys in Classic Film

1960s comedies are known for their rather frank discussions of romance and women. As the 1950s housewife persona slowly eroded and Women’s Lib inched along the horizon, the movies of the 1960s showed the joys and perils of the single and married man, and the burden that women could provide. Ho... Read full article


How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

By Lindsey on Feb 19, 2012 From The Motion Pictures

How to Murder Your Wife (1965): 3.5/5 I chose this film on a whim after browsing the “Classic Romantic Comedies” page on Netflix and noticing that Jack Lemmon had top billing. I’ve been trying to watch more of his films after falling in love with Bell, Book and Candle earlier this ... Read full article


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Charles Firbank: This is Mr. Ford's shower - thermostatically controlled at Mr. Ford's body temperature: ninety-eight point *seven*!


Harold Lampson: I am speaking to you now not as your lawyer but as your friend. Stan, you are a grown man and grown men simply can't, repeat cannot, go around spreading terror on the New York streets at the height of the noon hour accompanied -will you stop just a minute, Stan?- by naked women.
Stanley Ford: She wasn't naked. She had a diamond in her navel.


Stanley Ford: Push the button, Harold.


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In the Italian version Virna Lisi's character is Greek.
Last feature of Leonard Mudie.
Stanley's wife is referred to as "Mrs. Ford" throughout the whole film. Her first name is not mentioned once.
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