HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE (1965) ¢ ¢
D: Richard Quine
Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas,
Claire Trevor, Eddie Mayehoff, Jack Albertson
A happily single comic-strip artist gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and wakes up the next day married to the girl who jumped out of the cake. Before you can say, "What's the problem when the girl looks like Virna Lisi?", the guy's moping around grumping about how miserable he is, and hatching an elaborate plot to do her in. You can sense the potential for black comedy in this - imagine Jack Lemmon as Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux" - but what you get is a mean and mostly unfunny sex farce in which all the wives are manipulative bitches and all the husbands are henpecked fools. All sarcasm. No wit.
