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This 1965 Jack Lemon comedy fulfilled every mid-century comedy cliche possible as he played the swinging Manhattan bachelor living the Hugh Hefner dream while being cared for by Terry-Thomas, the ideal Man's Man.
Jack, at nationally syndicated cartoonist, lives life for nothing more than to enjoy it as a bachelor. He has T-T assist him with his comic strip as he photographs every serial story with actors and photographs which leads to humorous situations. Jack attends a bachelor party one night and it was a funeral until they bring in the cake and out comes the stunning Virni Lisi (at her peak). He wakes up the next morning married to Lisi who only speaks Italian and has no clothing of her own. His lawyer's wife grabs ahold of Lisi and shows her the ropes of American Marriage which agrees with her much to T-T disapproval and Jack's bank account. Things get so far out of hand Jack figures the only way out is to murder his wife. He sets forth his plan in his comic strip and lives it vicariously until Lisi finds and reads it and leaves him broken-hearted.
Enter the police when other people notice she is missing!
I remember seeing this in the twelfth grade and chortling away at all the goof ball comedy. Of course, this doesn't quite hold up 40+ years later. The film is nearly TWO hours long which is quite lengthy for a comedy in the 60's.
If you want a trip down memory lane to a time Hugh Hefner would like to return, see this. Terry-Thomas is absolutely superb as the narrating manservant and a true comic delight. Lisi was such a beauty and it was so shocking for me to see her in Queen Margot as a very old woman.
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...("Gloppita, gloppita, gloppita...), and when he is brought to court he pronounces a simply delirious, hypnotic speech in defence of a manīs right to get rid of an unbearable wife: when the entranced judge presses the imaginary button that would make his own wife go "pluff!", Jack Lemmon is acclaimed as a liberator, and he leaves the courtroom the same way a triumphant bullfighter does, on the shoulders of his public...
That scene alone is worth the whole film. And it canīt get dated: I saw it forty years ago, and to this day it still stays fresh.
Lisi comes back, with a vengeance. But so is life...
Thanks for making me smile at remembering!
BF
Yeah, great cheers all around.
Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
Edits: 11/02/09
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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