How to Murder Your Wife

(1965)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 155 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1965

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Richard Quine

Cast: Джек Леммон, Вирна Лизи, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor, Сидни Блэкмер, Max Showalter, Джек Альбертсон, Мэри Уикс, Алан Хьюит

Plot

Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after having attended a friend's stag party, he finds that he is married to the gorgeous woman who popped out of the cake--and doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat-harried husband. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder.