How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968 "The wife you save... may be your own!"
6.3| 1h42m| PG-13| en
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Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.
dukerail Dino is in such good form here and Stella is gorgeous They are very good together Most enjoyable but if fluff so easy to watch
moonspinner55 Glossy nonsense from screenwriters Stanley Shapiro (who also produced) and Nate Monaster begins as a cute working-girl comedy but, with hardly a shift in tone, suddenly morphs into a battle-of-the-sexes vehicle, with Dean Martin and Stella Stevens substituting for Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Corporate sharks Martin and Eli Wallach aren't very convincing cast as buddies in New York City--so when Martin offers to test the loyalty of Wallach's mistress, it seems like a lot of thankless work. Dino has the wrong girl anyway, and Stevens is put in the exhausting position of playing the flirt, the fool, the victim and the avenger. Director Fielder Cook stages the action rather limply, failing to inspire his cast (Martin only livens up in the final 30 minutes). The plushy picture looks good (except for a ridiculous yellow ensemble with black attributes and matching skull-cap worn by Stevens in the first cemetery scene), but its early promise is reneged on. Shapiro's comedies with Hudson and Day, "Pillow Talk" and "Lover Come Back", had some pep; this boudoir battle royale seems stagnant for 1968, with a depressing overall air of resignation. **1/2 from ****
jjnxn-1 Frothy comedy of multiple misunderstandings. An artifact of a different time but performed with zest by a capable cast. Stella Stevens is delightful radiating enough charm to fuel several movies, how she didn't become a bigger star is a mystery. It seems the kind of films in which she excelled were fading from popularity just as she was reaching the point in her career where she would have been the choice to lead them, a pity and a waste of an excellent talent. Even though the subject of the film is marital infidelity it is viewed with an innocent outlook which makes it similar to several of the other big hits of the sixties such as Move Over, Darling and That Touch of Mink. Aside from Stella the rest of the cast from Dino down give light enjoyable performances never taking the proceedings too seriously. If the viewer doesn't either they will find this a pleasant diversion.
JasparLamarCrabb A really fun, sadly neglected comedy starring Dean Martin. Martin attempts to help out pal Eli Wallach when he believes Wallach's mistress is cheating on him. Through a case of mistaken identity (and more than one comic blunder by Martin), Martin ends up with resourceful career girl Stella Stevens. It's as frothy as they come and very entertaining. Martin is perfect and has great chemistry with the fetching Stevens. Wallach is priceless as he tries to justify his infidelities. Director Fielder Cook keeps things moving at breakneck speed and the script by Nat Monaster and Stanley Shapiro is full of a lot of great one-liners. A clever comedy with a an unusually strong supporting cast including Anne Jackson, Betty Field, Jack Albertson and George Furth.