Run for Your Wife

Run for Your Wife

A hilarious story of WIFE-SHOPPING... and did you ever see such a list of goodies?

1965 · 108 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy

Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.

Directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro · Written by Rafael Azcona

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