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| A Guide for the Married Man | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Gene Kelly |
| Screenplay by | Frank Tarloff |
| Based on | A Guide for the Married Man, as Told to Frank Tarloff 1967 novel by Frank Tarloff |
| Produced by | Frank McCarthy |
| Starring | Walter Matthau Robert Morse Inger Stevens Sue Ane Langdon Claire Kelly Elaine Devry |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by | John Williams |
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Production |
20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time |
89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,325,000[1] |
| Box office | $5,000,000 (US/ Canada)[2] |
A Guide for the Married Man is a 1967 American bedroom-farce comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, and Inger Stevens.[3] It was directed by Gene Kelly.[4][5] It features many cameos, including Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Terry-Thomas, Jayne Mansfield, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Joey Bishop, Art Carney, and Wally Cox.[3] The title song, performed by The Turtles, was composed by John Williams with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Plot[edit]
Paul Manning discovers one day that his dear friend and neighbor Ed Stander has been cheating on his wife. Curious, he asks Ed about it, and is given the history and tactics of men who have successfully committed adultery. With each new story, Paul cannot help noticing the attractive blonde, Irma Johnson, who lives nearby.
Paul gets close to cheating on his wife, Ruth, but he never quite goes through with it. In a scene near the end of the movie, he is finally in a motel room with another woman, a wealthy divorced client. Paul hears shouting outside, and when he looks out the window, he sees photographers taking pictures of his friend Ed in bed with Mrs. Johnson. Paul takes this opportunity to flee the scene and run home to his beloved wife.
Cast[edit]
- Walter Matthau as Paul Manning
- Inger Stevens as Ruth Manning
- Sue Ane Langdon[6] as Irma Johnson
- Robert Morse as Ed Stander
- Elaine Devry as Jocelyn
- Jackie Joseph as Janet Brophy
- Aline Towne as Mousey Man’s Wife
- Claire Kelly as Harriet Stander
- Eve Brent as Joe X’s Blowsy Blonde
- Marvin Brody as Taxi Driver
- Jackie Russell as Miss Harris, Manning’s Secretary
- Majel Barrett as Mrs. Fred V.
- Linda Harrison as Miss Stardust
- Chanin Hale as Miss Crenshaw
Cameo appearances[edit]
- Lucille Ball as Mrs. Joe X
- Jack Benny as Ollie ‘Sweet Lips’
- Polly Bergen as Clara Brown
- Joey Bishop as Charlie
- Ben Blue as Shoeless
- Sid Caesar as Man at Romanoff’s
- Art Carney as Joe X
- Wally Cox as Man Married 14 Years
- Ann Morgan Guilbert as Charlie’s Wife
- Jeffrey Hunter as Mountain Climber
- Marty Ingels as Meat Eater
- Sam Jaffe as Shrink
- Jayne Mansfield as Girl with Harold
- Hal March as Man Who Loses Coat
- Louis Nye as Irving, House Buyer
- Carl Reiner as Rance G.
- Michael Romanoff as Romanoff’s Maitre’d
- Phil Silvers as Realtor
- Terry-Thomas as Harold ‘Tiger’
- Delores Wells as Girl with Wally Cox
- Heather Young as Girl with Megaphone
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
A Guide for the Married Man is simply «a series of dumb skits» in Pauline Kael’s estimation, and the famous names in the cast are all wasted: «what they do is no more memorable than the plugs for brand-name products that are scattered throughout».[7] Film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times greatly enjoyed the movie, calling it «The broadest and funniest farce to come out of Hollywood since the Russians came last year…who would imagine that a film pretending to be a how-to on infidelity would be funny or even in good taste?» and adding «what is thoroughly and delightfully disarming about this mischievous film is the impudent candor of it and its freedom from the leer.»[8] The staff at Variety wrote in their review: «Walter Matthau plays a married innocent, eager to stray under the tutelage of friend and neighbor Robert Morse. But this long-married hubby is so retarded in his Immorality (it takes him 12 years to get the seven-year-itch) that, between his natural reluctance and mentor Morse’s suggestions (interlarded with warnings against hastiness), he needs the entire film to have his mind made up.»[9] Film critic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times wrote in his review: «There are a lot of funny people in this movie, but they are not very funny people in this movie, Gertrude Stein might have said. The Casino Royale syndrome has struck again in A Guide for the Married Man, and we are forced to sit and watch as dozens of big-name stars jostle each other for their moment before the cameras.»[10]
Release[edit]
According to Fox records, A Guide for the Married Man needed to earn $5,900,000 in rentals to break even, and made $7,355,000, meaning it made a profit.[11]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on DVD on September 6, 2005, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.[12]
See also[edit]
- List of American films of 1967
- Jack Benny filmography
References[edit]
- ^ Solomon 1989, p. 255.
- ^ «Big Rental Films of 1967», Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
- ^ a b Faris 1994, p. 105.
- ^ Willis 1968, p. 43.
- ^ Parish & Pitts 1990, p. 451.
- ^ Lisanti 2003, p. 84.
- ^ Kael, Pauline (2011) [1991]. 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York City: Henry Holt and Company. p. 310. ISBN 978-1250033574.
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (May 27, 1957). «Screen: ‘Guide for the Married Man’:Matthau and Morse in Farce on Infidelity». The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ Variety Staff (December 31, 1966). «A Guide for the Married Man». Variety. United States: Variety Media, LLC. (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (July 14, 1967). «A Guide for the Married Man». RogerEbert.com. United States: Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 326. ISBN 9780818404856.
- ^ A Guide for the Married Man. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (DVD). Beverly Hills, California: 20th Century Fox. September 6, 2005. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
Further reading[edit]
- Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0810821477.
- Willis, John (1968). Screen World 1968. New York City: Crown Publishing Group. p. 43. ISBN 9780819603098.
- Faris, Jocelyn (1994). Jayne Mansfield: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts (Annotated ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 105. ISBN 978-0313285448.
- Lisanti, Tom (2003). Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties. New York City: McFarland & Company. p. 84. ISBN 978-0786415755.
- Parish, James Robert; Pitts, Michael R. (1990). Hollywood Songsters (1st ed.). New York City: Garland Science. p. 451. ISBN 978-0824034443.
External links[edit]
- A Guide for the Married Man at the TCM Movie Database
- A Guide for the Married Man at IMDb
- A Guide for the Married Man at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Guide for the Married Man at AllMovie
- A Guide for the Married Man at the American Film Institute Catalog
Люблю старые фильмы. Как советские, так и зарубежные. Недавно посмотрела комедию «Руководство для женатого мужчины» (или по другой версии «Руководство для женатых»). Но, на мой взгляд, более соответствует первый вариант. Так как советы даются только мужчинам.
Завязка такая. Примерный семьянин решается на измену. Подстрекателем выступает его друг, который имеет большой опыт в этом деле. И начинаются, как бы сейчас сказали, курсы под руководством этого друга:-) Главный герой Пол Меннинг основательно готовится к измене.
Надо сказать, что Пол — добродушный простачок. Даже по лицу видно:
Кстати, он напомнил мне певца Михаила Шелега. И одного из друзей моих родителей.
Фильм начинается с мультика, как и многие американские комедии тех времен. К примеру, «Этот безумный-безумный-безумный мир».
Я думаю, советские кинематографы взяли этот прием у американцев позже. Вспомнить хотя бы киношедевр отечественный «Ирония судьбы или С легким паром».
В «Руководстве…» — типичная атмосфера и мода 60-х, которая мне нравится:
Даже сделала себе несколько скриншотов, чтобы прикупить понравившиеся костюмы. Все такое яркое, живое!
Удивительно, что несмотря на моду на мини, на то, что уже показываются откровенные (для тех лет), кадры, Пол Меннинг и его жена спят на разных кроватях:
Недавно посмотрела фильм «Быть Рикардо» о съемках моего любимого сериала «Я люблю Люси». Так там вообще было сказано, что тема беременности Люси была весьма спорной. Ведь это означало, что между Люси и ее мужем есть интимные отношения:-) А они даже спали на разных кроватях. Как здесь. Но в этой картине уже есть и сцена в душе, и другие более откровенные сцены. Есть и попытка пойти в стриптиз бар:-)
В картине ну ооочень много комичных ситуаций! Посмеялась от души. Отдыхающий фильм с остроумный юмором. Много камео. То есть включений коротких сцен с известными актерами. Кстати, я так и нашла этот фильм. На постере указана Люсиль Болл (исполнительница роли Люси в «Я люблю Люси»), а я как раз искала картины с ней. Но здесь у нее очень эпизодическая роль:
И мы наконец видим ее в цвете, со знаменитыми рыжими волосами. Много также камео с другими известными актерами:
Актер в очках — очень колоритный персонаж из «Этот безумный безумный мир».
А этого мужчину вообще многие узнают. Он из «Большой прогулки» с Луи де Фюнесом.
Развязка у картины неожиданная и ожидаемая. Ведь герой очень любит свою жену:-)
Очень рекомендую к просмотру!
| Руководство для женатого мужчины | |
| A Guide for the Married Man | |
| Жанр |
комедия-фарс |
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| Режиссёр |
Джин Келли |
| Продюсер |
Фрэнк Маккарти |
| Автор сценария |
Фрэнк Тарлофф (автор книги и сценария) |
| В главных ролях |
Уолтер Маттау |
| Оператор |
Джозеф Макдональд |
| Композитор |
Джон Уильямс |
| Кинокомпания |
Desilu Productions |
| Длительность |
89 мин. |
| Бюджет |
$2 500 000 |
| Страна |
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| Язык |
английский |
| Год |
1967 |
| IMDb |
ID 0061736 |
«Руководство для женатого мужчины» — комедия 1967 года с элементами «постельного фарса» американского режиссёра Джина Келли по книге и сценарию Фрэнка Тарлоффа.
Сюжет
В один прекрасный день, после двенадцати лет счастливого брака, примерный семьянин Пол Мэннинг (играет Уолтер Маттау) обнаруживает, что его друг и сосед Эд Стэндер (играет Роберт Моурс) изменяет своей жене. Заговорив об этом, Пол узнаёт от Эда много интересного об искусстве супружеской измены. Под впечатлением этих рассказов Пол начинает обращать повышенное внимание на соблазнительную блондинку Ирму Джонсон (играет Сью Эйн Лэнгдон), живущую неподалёку.
В течение фильма Пол пытается изменить своей жене (играет Ингер Стивенс), но ни разу не доводит начатое до конца.
Премьерный показ в разных странах[1]
- США — 25 мая 1967
- Финляндия — 25 августа 1967
- Швеция, Западная Германия — 29 сентября 1967
- Япония — 25 ноября 1967
- Дания — 26 февраля 1968
- Турция — декабрь 1969
Кроме того фильм официально переводился на испанский, греческий и итальянский языки.
Интересные факты
- В фильме присутствует довольно большое количество камео (в рассказах Эда Стэндера): Люсиль Болл, Джэк Бенни, Терри-Томас, Джейн Мэнсфилд, Сид Цезарь, Карл Рейнер, Джоей Бишоп и Уолли Кокс. Каждый из них получил по $10 000 за два дня съёмок[2].
- Вступительную песню исполняет группа «The Turtles» (музыка Джона Уильямса, стихи Лесли Брикьюсса). The Turtles также получили за это $10 000[2].
- В 1968 году фильм номинировался на награды «Golden Laurel» и «WGA Award (Screen)», но ни одной из них так и не получил[3].
- В 1978 году на телеэкраны вышел фильм «Руководство для замужней женщины»[4].
Ссылки
- Руководство для женатого мужчины на IMDB
- Руководство для женатого мужчины на сайте Allmovie.com
- Руководство для женатого мужчины на сайте tcm.com
- Руководство для женатого мужчины на сайте videoguide.ru
Примечания
- ↑ IMDB — releaseinfo
- ↑ 1 2 IMDB — trivia
- ↑ IMDB — awards
- ↑ IMDB — A Guide for the Married Woman
8/10
Male fantasies
Gene Kelly, who directed this film, was a man that understood clearly timing and movement, as his distinguished career demonstrates. Being behind the camera gives him the opportunity to have his players to put into practice some of his ideas and the result is a film that is a lot of fun and doesn’t appear too dated.
What Mr. Kelly accomplished with this film was bringing together two charismatic performers at the top of their form. Walter Matthau had been seen in lots of supporting roles before, but as Paul Manning, the bored husband looking for ways of having fun on the side, he is wonderful. The same could be said about Robert Morse, who had been on the New York stage and in other movies. Mr. Morse makes a fantastic contribution with his take of Ed Stander, the man who knew about how to go after the women he wanted without regard of the consequences.
Ed Stander puts a bug in Paul Manning’s brain about how to have fun away from home. The only thing is, Paul is a man with a normal marriage with an adoring wife, who would not even contemplate in reciprocating what he is trying to do if he follows Ed’s advice.
The other amazing thing in the film is the different vignettes that are seen throughout the movie. Some of the best and most accomplished actors working in Hollywood have a small part in cameo appearances that illustrate points that Ed would like Paul to put into practice. This way we get to see actors of the caliber of Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Jack Benny, Joey Bishop, Louis Nye, Jayne Mansfield, Phil Silvers, and others playing the dream-like sequences.
«A Guide for the Married Man» is a film worthy of our time since it takes us back to a more innocent period. Thanks to Mr. Kelly’s inspired direction, the film will always be a favorite of mature fans.
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8/10
A 60s film not trapped in 60s mores
Some background — Walter Matthau’s character is a successful man who loves his wife (Inger Stevens) — she is attractive, she and Matthau still do things together and get along. She is prime rib, but no man wants to eat prime rib for 50 years.
So a «A Guide for the Married Man» is exactly what the title indicates. On one level, it is a hilarious comedy in which a philanderer (Robert Morse) senses his friend’s (Walter Matthau) restlessness, and then proceeds to school him on how to commit adultery safely. Each principle is illustrated by a skit performed by other comedians of the time.
On another level, it actually provides sage advice for anyone thinking about getting a little on the side. That sage advice is, in the words of Micky Rourke in 1981’s «Body Heat» about a completely different subject — «This is not (stuff) for you to be messin’ with. Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you’re gonna (mess) up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you’re a genius… and you ain’t no genius.»
So this film is not as trapped in 60’s sexual mores as other films of the decade, because married men will always want to rent a house at the beach now and then although that does not mean they want to sell their house in the suburbs and disrupt their way of life. Probably making wives nervous for over fifty years, this is a 60s film still worth seeing.
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10/10
The best laid plans …
A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN is a period piece, a relic of a time gone by. It is set in a brief American era of the 1960s when sophistication was marked by the three-martini lunch, where male wit and style were drawn from the pages of Playboy; and where the war between men and women was a naughty little game played as part of The Good Life in suburbia, not a cultural one fought in the board rooms and the court rooms.
Every bit as artificial in its glib amorality as a Norman Rockwell painting is in its ambiance of homey traditionalism, A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN is about adultery, not as a thou-shall-not commandment, but as a sporting event. And though it views adultery as a dangerous game, not without its risks; A GUIDE also views it as a male challenge that must be met, because, in the words of one character, «she’s there!»
Structurally, the film is an old-fashioned throwback to the days when a studio would concoct a movie designed to showcase its stars in bite-size appearances; either in musical faux-biographies like ZIEGFELD FOLLIES and NIGHT AND DAY or in episodic comedies like IF I HAD A MILLION and WE’RE NOT MARRIED. Considering the film is smoothly directed with assured style by studio-bred legend Gene Kelly, such a variety show format is not that surprising. In this case, instead of putting on a show, the framing story involves Walter Matthau as a mostly happily married man with a seven year itch. He is married to a perfect wife in the very attractive form of the perfectly vivacious Inger Stevens. Yet he wants cake that he can both have and eat, because, to paraphrase, «you’d get tired of steak, if you didn’t have fish once in awhile.»
To teach the old dog his new tricks, enter Robert Morse as the impish, married swinger-next-door to provide sagely advise on how to best weave webs of deceit. In teaching Matthau the dos and don’ts of cheating, Morse offers up numerous «I once knew this guy who …»-style urban legends, all illustrated via comic vignettes by a cast of wonderful «technical advisors,» including Wally Cox, Art Carney, Lucille Ball, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Ben Blue, Polly Bergen and Louis Nye, among others. While all the skits are very funny, a few are tiny comic masterpieces: Jack Benny in «How to break it off;» Joey Bishop in «Deny, deny, deny;» Carl Reiner in «You can never be TOO careful!» and Terry-Thomas and Jayne Mansfield illustrating why adultery should never be a home-based hobby. The film skillfully walks the line between merely being a «Love, American Style» series of comic skits and telling a gently amusing story about a man cautiously testing the limitations of his middle class marriage and his middle American values.
Yes, its approach to infidelity is dishonest and sexist and politically incorrect, but it all seems like good, clean fun compared to contemporary «sex comedies» that are defined by how far a film can push the bounds of being gross-out tasteless and raunchy. That is the quirky thing about A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN, it is strangely wholesome. There is a benign quality to its obsession with sex: no nudity, no profanity, really no sex — even most of the bedrooms that are shown have twin beds. As lascivious as his quest for a dangerous liaison seems, there is something boyishly romantic about Matthau’s lust. Mildly daring for its time, the film’s approach to sex more reflects the innocent naughtiness of the Marilyn Monroe ’50s than the strident feminist/politically correctness of the ’70s. And like most such comedies, from THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH to BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE to SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR to «10», A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN is all flirtation and not copulation; it ultimately recognizes the fantasy of swinging, only to use it to reaffirm the sanctity of home, marriage and family.
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7/10
excellent sex farce
rupie18 September 2000
This entertaining bit of froth stands up well, as Robert Morse, the neighborhood Lothario, attempts to instruct Walter Matthau in the How-To’s of philandery (why he should be interested in philandery when he is married to the incredibly built Inger Stevens is an unexplained mystery). Of course the many delicious cameos by such as Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Joey Bishop, et. al. keep the film bouncing merrily along. Well worth a see.
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8/10
A definite period piece, but a fun one
There are a lot of slams in the comments about how this film is not politically correct, or downright misogynistic. True enough, I suppose, but it isn’t fair to apply today’s standards to a film that is over forty years old. I was a child at that time, but a man’s home really was his castle then, and yes that was definitely to the detriment of the women. But that is the way it was. So get over it. The film is a lot of fun if you don’t wear the ideological blinders when you watch it. Walter Matthau is always fun to watch, and Inger Stevens was, of course, serious eye candy. There are a lot of other pretty girls in the film, and Robert Morse’s character was a hoot, seeing him rationalize his lust into caring so much for his wife that he must protect HER from knowledge of his adultery. The cameo vignettes were mostly amusing as well. It is light comedy, so don’t expect to roll on the floor, but I say, check it out.
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7/10
Good frothy fun…a perfect 60s time capsule sex comedy.
Walter Matthau has great fun in his role of a husband experiencing the «seven-year itch» who tries to learn the ropes of philandering by a co-worker buddy and expert adulterer (Robert Morse). Aided and abetted by a host of guest stars in flashback who offer the «do’s» and «don’t’s» of extramarital affairs, our novice soon learns that cheating is a serious and very technical business. One misstep or a brief lapse of judgment…and it can be curtains for Casanova.
Matthau manages to keep the potentially smarmy material light and engaging while Morse is wickedly humorous as the no-nonsense «big brother.» Of the numerous cautionary «lessons» offered by the guest stars, Joey Bishop, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Terry-Thomas and Jayne Mansfield manage to grab the biggest yuks in their brief scenes.
The irony of it all is that the late Inger Stevens, who plays Matthau’s wife, is a spectacularly beautiful dish who, in my mind, has it all over the bump-and-grind shennanigans of Sue Ane Langdon and/or tawdry allure of Elaine Devry. Why Matthau’s character would even consider cheating on the best looking femme in the picture is beyond me.
Nevertheless, relax and enjoy these comedy pros at work, guided by the assured hand of dancer-turned-director Gene Kelly.
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Blows AMERICAN PIE right out of the pastry shop
If you think four teenage guys trying to «score» before prom night is funny, wait’ll you see the hilarious lengths married men go to philander successfully! A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN was the original raunchy sex comedy (without ever resorting to the vomit-inducing scatological humor of recent years), and even after 33 years it holds up fairly well. Walter Matthau plays a neurotic businessman who struggles to remain faithful to his wife while being tempted by his friend’s seemingly foolproof program of sexual infidelity. Lots of one-liners and cartoonish humor, and Matthau gives us a character whom we can laugh at and identify with at the same time. One of the best sex comedies of all time, if only because the scene where Matthau is driven out onto the fire escape by a roomful of perky secretaries is ten times funnier than Jason Biggs jamming his nether regions into a baked good.
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7/10
Guide for the Married Man, A (DIDIER BECU)
How to cheat your wife without the danger that she ever notices it? That’s the big issue for the friends that are surrounding Walter Matthau who thought that loving his wife is the sole thing on earth that counts even if there are other parts of the body that says it differently. Well it’s called a sexcomedy but mind you this is as friendly as cinema from the sixties can get but it works brilliant and not in the least because of Walter’s great performance.
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10/10
Hilarious laughfest from beginning to end
The scene with joey Bishop and Ann morgan-Gilbert («Deny, Deny, Deny») has to be one of the 3 funniest scenes EVER filmed in Hollywood! Fantastic! And timely too, it is certainly advice that Bill Clinton should have taken to heart !!!
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9/10
Guilty pleasures abound with an all star cast of cameos for good measure
This film is closing in on its 50th anniversary and as would be expected, many of the cast who had cameo appearances in A Guide for the Married Man are no longer with us. If this were to be one of their last films then they can rest assured that they went out in style. Walter Matthau plays Paul Manning who is an Investment Counselor who is married with one young daughter so he is a family man. Now Paul is married to his perfect and beautiful stay at home wife named Ruth also played to perfection by Inger Stevens.
The film revolves around Paul Manning wanting to fulfill some of his many passionate dreams of having extra marital affairs with the many beautiful women who surround him both at work and around his home. None are more desired by Paul than his next door neighbour Mrs. Irma Johnson played superbly by sexy Sue Ane Langdon, who in this film it would seem Irma’s butt received more exposure time in the film than her lovely face and charming personality.
Paul receives guidance on how to succeed in his desire to cheat on his wife Ruth, from one of his peers in his office named Edward L Stander played by Robert Morse. (Robert Morse played the same role on Broadway as well). Now Edward has expressed to Paul that he has much successful experience in cheating on his own wife to share with Paul and the pitfalls to avoid that he can share with Paul. Through numerous cameo appearances by top rated stars such as Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop, Jack Benny and Jayne Mansfield to name a few, Paul’s coworker and adulterous tutor Ed provides Paul with his wealth of experience in how to get away with his cheating ways by explaining to Paul how some of his known acquaintances met their own demise by simple mistakes. Through these five minute cameo appearances by a list of all-stars we get to see how each of them failed or succeeded with their sexual encounters. One of the more enjoyable cameos was with Carl Reiner travelling completely around the world by air, sea and land, to hook up with his mistress only to be caught on camera by his wife when he finally arrived to hook up with his mistress.
The 1960’s were simpler times but I still love these comedies that are filled with an all-star cast, five minute cameos, and which usually provide a subtle message to men with wandering eyes. You can dream about your guilty pleasures but if you choose to really act upon them is it worth giving up all that you have today? I give this classic film a 9 out of 10 rating and stand behind this movie theme. So sit back, enjoy the film, and stay true to your wife and family as there is none no better, just as A Guide for the Married Man explains. Loved it!
9/10
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9/10
Almost Salacious!!
This is a very entertaining artifact of its era, the swinging sixties.Concerning the attempts of Walter Matthau to cheat on his sexy wife Inger Stevens with the even more sexy and luscious Sue Ann Langdon (what did this guy want, everything?)cheered on by his rake of a pal, Robert Morse(!!). A case of stunt casting which in this case works. The sexual revolution hits poor suburbanite Matthau right in the face and he wants in on it. Who can blame him? This would-be bawdy comedy was directed by nice guy Gene Kelly, so if it’s not rapacious enough for some, it’s still the best piece of bawd this side of Billy Wilder.
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Underrated classic
A movie from a time when «mature» didn’t mean graphic. The plot is right out of the buttoned-down 60’s — Walter Matthau consults with expert adulterer Robert Morse before cheating on his wife (a very sexy Inger Stevens). Robert Morse’s lessons are illustrated by hilarious vignettes featuring a Who’s Who of comedy stars. The Joey Bishop turn on how to handle being caught in the act — Deny, Deny, Deny is a classic.
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8/10
The Women Are Both Sexy and Clothed
The focus of the movie is on investment adviser Paul Manning (Walther Matthau) and his lawyer friend Ed Stander (Robert Morse). Both are married to attractive women: Paul with the dutiful blonde Ruth (Inger Stevens) and Ed with the brunette Harriet (Claire Kelly). Both have one child; Paul has a little girl and Ed has a boy. Every morning Paul leaves his home for work at the same time as his alluring neighbor Irma Johnson (Sue Ane Langdon), she of the tight miniskirt and pillbox hat. When he drives along Wilshire Boulevard in LA and glances at the pedestrians, all Paul sees are nubile attractive women, especially Angelique Prettyjohn in a yellow miniskirt.
Suburban swinger Ed «coaches» semi-hesitant Paul in how cheating on his wife will actually «improve» his marriage. Surely, she would thank him if she only knew, but of course she should not know! And why do men cheat? Well, according to the movie there are three reasons: (1) latent insecurity, (2) variety, and (3) because she’s available.
Libertine Ed’s story-telling of the dos and don’ts is illustrated by various uproarious vignettes and cameos starring some of the more famous actors of the time, like Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Joey Bishop, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Polly Bergen, and others. For instance, in the «Deny, Deny, Deny» segment, Joey Bishop is caught with a gal by his wife but denies everything as he calmly dresses and makes the bed. Finally sitting on his easy chair with his newspaper, he says, «What are you talking about?» His flustered wife can only respond, «What would you like for dinner?» The Art Carney-Lucille Ball scene is also funny. Carney starts an argument and walks out to his mistress. After a tryst, he calls his wife Lucille back to apologize, and she accepts. Later, when Paul ogles a pretty lady with child, Ed says nix. Stay with a single girl, he advises, because if you tangle with a married person double jeopardy is an issue. Her husband may get suspicious and cause problems; so one has to be concerned about both spouses instead of just the wife. There are other scenes of note that work quite well.
Not politically correct by today’s standards, this Gene Kelly directed film cannot be made today for obvious reasons. Though risqué, it succeeds in its imagination and is easy to watch. By the way, that Sue Ane Langdon is something else, isn’t she? When Paul and Ed observe her walking ahead they call her out and tell her that they recognized her. «From behind?» she jests! The title tune is well-sung by the Turtles, a popular rock group of the time. The noteworthy aspect of this film is that the women remain so darn sexy with their clothes on!
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9/10
Hilarious sexy romp
This film is a very funny, very sexy take on life as a married man and all the inclinations to cheating. Walter Matthau plays a happily married (to the sexy Inger Stevens) man who decides he might want to have an affair. Enter best friend Robert Morse who teaches him the do’s and dont’s of cheating. With each tale Morse spins we see the story acted out with the aid of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. The segments with Lucille Ball and Art Carney and the one with Carl Reiner are standouts.
For a good laugh this is a top choice.
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8/10
Very funny and very sexy
«A Guide for the Married Man» is a top notch comedy starring Walter Matthau as a man who yearns to have an affair. Best friend Robert Morse teaches him the right ways and wrong ways of cheating. As Morse tells Matthau the audience is treated to a bevy of cameos by famous stars in short vignettes. Carl Reiner’s bit comes off best and look for other famous faces including Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Phil Silvers and many more. The real joke of the movie is that Matthau is married to the totally gorgeous Inger Stevens. Most men wouldn’t think twice about staying faithful to her.
The performances are all good. Matthau is his usual terrific self and Morse nearly steals the movie. Inger Stevens (sadly in one of her last roles) had the talent to be a wonderful actress.
The movie is amazingly sexy for 1967. Every woman in the film is sexy and each of them to dress to impress. It’s a funny, sexy romp that adults should all enjoy.
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Plenty of cameos.
This picture has been on AMC recently. An allstar cast in various cameo roles as Walter Matthau get tips on how to cheat on his wife from the expert played by Robert Morse. All in all for a movie that features this many stars it’s not bad. Some scenes are funnier than others. Lots of gorgeous 60’s starlets to include Inger Stevens, Linda Harrison, Sue Ann Langdon, Jayne Mansfield, Polly Bergen, Majel Barrett. If you’ve never seen it it’s worth the time.
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7/10
To understand this film
To understand this film, to review this film, you need context. You need to know that the cast of stars, including cameos, was extraordinary even for the day, virtually the entire cast of a Broadway Play. You need to know that most of those cameos were by professionals who had honed their craft in the 1940s and 1950s, and most definitely did not represent the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 60s. These factors constrained the script, forcing it into a template more like a vaudeville show than a movie. Think «SNL’s great grandfather.» There. With all those factors on the table, it is not a bad movie, funny in parts. With all those actors, it is also a true historical archive. ((Designated «IMDb Top Reviewer.» Please check out my list «167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
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5/10
Remember When Sex Was Fun?
This is a wonderful late-sixties sex comedy. Walter Matthau and Robert Morse are perfectly cast, Inger Stevens is heart-breakingly beautiful and the Technical Advisors are well chosen. Other users keep citing the Joey Bishop scene, but my favorite is the Phil Silvers/Louis Nye scene, which is absolutely top notch and shows what direction «The Phil Silvers Show» might have taken in the sixties if Bilko was allowed to have sex. Unlike the Phil Silvers/Don Knotts scene in «Mad, etc. World,» this was a perfectly cast scene that *didn’t* fall flat.
And my two nominees for Hot Babes of the sixties are here: Sue Ane Langdon and Jackie Joseph, before they played hookers in «The Cheyenne Social Club.»
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10/10
EXCELLENT FUNNY! Wish it were on DVD and in widescreen/letterbox!
This movie is very funny and only wish it’d be on DVD! And if so, in letterbox / widescreen! Which I know is a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Studios keep putting out the same titles over and over again on DVD; there are MANY other titles / movies that need to be on DVD! I remember seeing this film on ABC on their afternoon movie (4:30 PM), back in the 1970’s, and then awhile ago, in letterbox / widescreen on the AMC channel (before they ruined the channel by going with commercials). The character of Robert Morse («Ed») shows Walter Matthau’s character («Paul») how to cheat on his wife, by telling stories of other men who cheated on their wives (utilizing famous celebrities in cameos in these roles), and explains what they did and how they did it, and what to do and what NOT to do. The title song by the Turtles is great! A bouncy tune! Someone should tell 20th Century Fox to put this out on DVD and if and when they do, put it out in letterbox / widescreen. SEE IT (if you have not)! ENJOY! -Paul latinogringo941
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Topical sex comedy with one big caveat…..
Racy-for-its-time satire of mid-1960’s American (and particularly Southern Californian) sexual mores, this picture features an endless parade of then-familiar faces in often side-splittingly funny cameos. My only complaint (I see some of the other commenters agree with me, some don’t): the casting of Walter Matthau, at least with Inger Stevens as his wife. Not to take anything away from Matthau, who was probably the best rubbery-faced, sad-sack looking comic since Buster Keaton, but it’s simply beyond comprehension that (1) a woman who looked like the incomparable Swedish beauty Stevens would marry such a schlump and (2) that he would want to cheat on her; it just doesn’t ring true to me. But perhaps that’s only meant to add to the comedy. At any rate, definitely an artifact of a long time ago in another America far, far away.
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7/10
Worth a look, especially for the sophomoric titillation that it is.
Warning: Spoilers
OUR OWN SISTER, Joanne Ryan (1942-1990) once described IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD as being; «Everyone in Hollywood sand bring your car!» So too this sort of All-Star ensemble comedy could be capsulized in similar fashion. More is better, bigger and much more expen$I’ve; that’s the idea here.
EHEN VIEWED THROUGH the benefit of hindsight, which is always 20-20, the basic premise of this picture seems to be pretty tame by today’s standard. But once we transport ourselves to the mid to late 1960’s, we can see just why this would have an appeal to audiences then.
IN SHORT, WHAT we have is a series of mini episodes about the age old sport and activity of philandering; everyone of which act as a sort of «How To» instructional video. They are done up as short, unrelated and star-studded cameo appearances by a myriad of Hollywood’s best. As each of the fine points of hanky-panky are demonstrated as master womanizer, Robert Morse gives pointers to neophyte and wannabe cheater, Walter Matthau.
TO OUR WAY of thinking, the roles could well have been reversed; but then again, playing parts that go against type are oft the meat of the thespian. Following this idea to its most challenging fruition could lead to some most interesting bits of casting.
HOW’S ABOUT TRYING a Biblical Epic with Rip Taylor portraying John the Baptist?
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ranks right up there with mad mad world!
if this movie were re-released it would have top billing and full houses across the nation. truly, one of the great comedies and pot-pourri of cast every gathered. not a dull moment and poignant at the same time
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10/10
re: Just brilliant
Just brilliant.. Look at the world class actors on show just for this picture…Lucille Ball, Phill Shivers, Hane Mansfield, Terry Thomas, Jerry Bishop, Ed Cesear, Jack Benny. The list goes on
«Cheating» on a grand scale is carried out here. But it is done in a humorous way. If that can be achieved???
Terry Thomas has a small part in this movie. However, that small part alone is worth the price of the DVD. Just brilliant.
Walter Mattheu is being taught the «ropes» by his Master Robert Morse on how to get away with «Murder».
Every trick in the book is used in never getting caught,. Certain rules have to be adhered to to achieve this.
The original sex comedy but done with Hollywoods backing proper on this picture. Risky subject, but the they managed to pull it of.
I want ot be able to purchase this DVD, as I have just watch this on Tcm. Does any one know where you can purchase this DVD in England????
Please let me know????
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3/10
Boring, Witless Comedy
Even though he is happily married to gorgeous Stevens, Matthau, coached by Morse, plans to cheat on her because, as one character explains, if you have steak every night, sometimes you want to have chicken. The premise has possibilities but the episodic script is almost completely devoid of laughs. A who’s who cast of comedy stars illustrates the fine art of cheating through brief skits, but the only bits that are even mildly amusing are the ones featuring Caesar and Bishop. Kelly doesn’t help matters with his amateurish direction, marked by so many zoom shots that it is nausea-inducing. The only thing this lame movie has going for it is an abundance of attractive women.
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5/10
Okay time killer.
«A Guide for the Married Man» is one of those movies that you think is pretty good until you look and see how long you’ve been watching it for. I thought I was a little rough on this movie the last the time I watched it until I looked at the clock. I thought it was on for an hour when it was only on for about half of that. Then it just dragged on and on. It’s not an unfunny movie. It’s filled with a lot of almost laughs. It also has a lot of cleavage and rumps to look at. It has a whole but of silly cameos by people I know I should know better. «A Guide for the Married Man» is an okay, if somewhat dated, way to kill a rainy afternoon. Honorable mention: a dreamy Inger Stevens.
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