How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!

NR 1965 · 118 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy

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.

Directed by Richard Quine · Written by George Axelrod

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Jack Lemmon Stanley Ford
Virna Lisi Mrs. Ford
Terry-Thomas Charles
Eddie Mayehoff Harold Lampson
Claire Trevor Edna
Sidney Blackmer Judge Blackstone
Max Showalter Tobey Rawlins
Jack Albertson Dr. Bentley
Mary Wickes Harold's Secretary
Alan Hewitt District Attorney
Barry Kelley Club Member
William Bryant Club Member

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