| Come uccidere vostra moglie (1965)
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| Copertina |
Attore |
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| Jack Lemmon |
Stanley Ford
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| Virna Lisi |
Mrs. Ford
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| Terry-Thomas |
Charles
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| Eddie Mayehoff |
Harold Lampson
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| Claire Trevor |
Edna
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| Sidney Blackmer |
Judge Blackstone
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| Max Showalter |
Tobey Rawlins
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| Jack Albertson |
Dr. Bentley
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| Mary Wickes |
Harold's Secretary
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| Alan Hewitt |
District Attorney
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| Dettagli del film |
| Titolo originale |
How to Murder your Wife |
| Genere |
Commedia |
| Regista |
Richard Quine |
| Produttore |
George Axelrod; Gordon Carroll |
| Autore |
George Axelrod |
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| Lingua |
English |
| Durata |
118 min. |
| Nazione |
USA |
| Colori |
Colore |
| Valutazione IMDB |
6.5 |
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| Trama |
Dopo una notte di sbornia un autore di fumetti trova nel suo letto una bella ragazza greca (italiana nell'originale) con un anello nuziale al dito. Cerca di sbarazzarsene nei modi più bizzarri. Scritta da George Axelrod, è una farsa pimpante che regge per 2 ore anche per merito di un'affiatata squadra di caratteristi. 1° film americano di V. Lisi.
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Stanley Ford, il creatore di un celebre fumetto seguitissimo dal pubblico, è un uomo felicemente scapolo. Alla festa di addio al celibato di un caro amico, Stanley, ubriaco, sposa una ragazza arrivata in America per un concorso di bellezza che non conosce una parola d'inglese. La mattina dopo, passata la sbornia, Stanley si sveglia accanto a lei, si ritrova sposato e con la vita stravolta. Abbandonato dal suo fedele servitore e sconvolto dalle eccessive capacità domestiche della moglie, Stanley comincia ad elaborare il piano per un delitto perfetto che, per prova, fa compiere al suo eroe dei fumetti. La moglie, spaventata, fugge via e tutti credono che sia veramente stata uccisa. In tribunale, Stanley dovrà dimostrare la propria innocenza, ma alla fine capirà di essersi sinceramente innamorato della moglie.
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Jack Lemmon plays handsome bachelor Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist who is happily unmarried and enjoying all the creature comforts one could desire, including a wonderful valet, Charles Firbank (Terry-Thomas), who takes care of all his material needs. Stanley lives a carefree life as a single man, attending wild parties and chasing attractive young women etc. However, fate soon intervenes: whilst attending a friend's bachelor party, Stanley becomes very drunk. When the would-be groom calls off his wedding, Stanley drunkenly proposes to a beautiful blonde Italian girl dressed in a swim-suit, who has just stepped out of a large cake. An equally drunken judge (Sidney Blackmer) at the party overhears Stanley's marriage proposal and obligingly performs an impromptu (but legally binding) wedding ceremony. Next morning, Stanley wakes up with a hangover. Lying in bed next to him is the beautiful woman (Lisi) who stepped out of the cake at the party. At first he remembers nothing of the previous night's events. Then, the awful truth begins to dawn on him. To make matters worse, his new wife speaks no English, which makes communicating with her something of a challenge. He tries to get the marriage annulled, but his lawyer informs him that this is impossible.
Marriage takes Stanley's life and turns it completely upside down. His new wife quickly begins to make certain changes to his lifestyle which causes friction with Stanley's valet. Stanley even changes the cartoon he writes (Bash Brannigan) and shifts it from a secret agent to a household comedy. After becoming increasingly irritated by the various changes that marriage has made to his life, Stanley vents his frustrations by concocting a plot, in his daily comic strip at least, to kill his wife and dispose of the body "in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine".
Stanley's wife sees the cartoon on his work-desk, takes offense and leaves without a trace. Questions are asked, and after reading the offending cartoon the police put two and two together and make five. Ford is quickly arrested and accused of murdering his wife and disposing of the body. His cartoons are used as prosecution evidence at the subsequent trial. After his attorney does a thoroughly incompetent job of defending him, Stanley fires him and defends himself. He ends up telling the jury that he did indeed murder his wife, and that they should acquit him on the grounds of justifiable homicide. The all-male jury is sympathetic because they themselves are frustrated at the way their respective wives have taken all the fun out of their lives. In a gesture of protest and defiance, the jury deliberately finds Stanley not guilty and he is acquitted, released and carried shoulder high out of the court room, whilst all the women look on in stony silence.
The movie has a happy ending of sorts when Stanley's wife returns and they are reconciled. Stanley has gradually realised that he really does love his wife, and that life is far sweeter with her than without her. His disapproving butler Charles is introduced to her very attractive mother who, like Charles, has a space between her teeth. The underlying message is that love will conquer all.
The comic strip
The comic strip art in the film was credited to Mel Keefer. Alex Toth did a teaser comic that ran in the Hollywood Reporter and several newspapers for ten days as advertising for the film. |
| Dettagli personali |
| Visto |
No |
| Indice |
3393 |
| Stato della collezione |
In collezione |
| Data d'acquisto |
06/05/2012 |
| Posizione |
T2-Attori |
| Collegamenti |
IMDB
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| Qualità |
99 |
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| Dettagli del prodotto |
| Formato |
DivX |
| Regione |
Region 1 |
| Nr di dischi/nastri |
1 |
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