How To Murder Your Wife

This is the late Jack Lemmon in comic mode, as a successful cartoonist who one morning wakes up to discover that he's married the Italian lady (Virna Lisi) beside him.

A congenital bachelor, he grimly decides to regain that status, aided by his manservant (Terry-Thomas).

Director Richard Quine, who had been a cartoonist himself before becoming a film-maker, applies the same comic-strip momentum to the fantasy. The film probably now looks a little dated, with its almost paranoid obsession with what Women's Lib was doing to male chauvinism as well as the Playboy philosophy of Hugh Hefner.

But that simply adds a museum-quality touch to the art of Lemmon and Terry-Thomas.

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