Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

acecomicscollect I must first give thanks to former President Bill Clinton. If not for his many cheating escapades, most importantly with Monica Lewinsky, which led to his idiotic, finger wagging denials, this gem may never have resurfaced. There'll be those few, very insecure women and a few beaten down into submission politically correct men that will bomb this movie. Foe everyone else, sit back and laugh. Talk about a babe fest, this is it. Elaine Devry, Inger Stevens, Sue Ann Langdon, Linda Harrison, Jayne Mansfield plus more. Talk about a comedy cameo fest. Jack Benny, Phil Silvers, Sid Ceasar, Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop and many more. Anyone who has seen this will tell you about the classic "deny, deny, deny" scene with Joey Bishop but there are plenty more funny scenes to go along with that. Terry Thomas has one of the funniest lines of all time in his scene with the ridiculous, incredible, you can't believe it, most phenomenal body of the beautiful Jayne Mansfield. I think the 1st joke is that an unattractive, fish faced Walter Matthau is married to a babe like Inger Stevens, 2nd is that he ignores her when she strips in front of him to get into her nightie, 3rd is that he would even contemplate cheating on her. It must be this way, if he were married to a "dog", we would understand his wanting to cheat, especially with Elaine Devry. Oh my, what a beautiful, alluring, seductive woman. I can't understand why she didn't make it bigger. Robert Morse (from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" also very funny) and Walter Matthau play off of each other superbly. Morse is lending Matthau advice on how to cheat without getting caught. Whatever you do, don't take this movie so seriously, have fun and enjoy and remember the moral of the story "there is no place like home".

kenjha 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.

Merwyn Grote 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.

Didier (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.