How To Murder Your Wife - This Aged Great!

[@thisagedgreat]

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[@EbonyPope]

Just finished the movie. Man what a nice gem. If you have any more suggestions concerning that era (I love 60s comedies and movies in general) please let me know!

[@thepeanutgallery6100]

The actress who played the beautiful Italian cake lady was Virna Lisi. November 8, 1936-December 18, 2014

[@SaltyBob355]

Women hit peak attractiveness in the 60s.

[@-xirx-]

One of the greatest beauties of the 20th Century

[@Glassandcandy]

I watched this today for the first time while at a treatment center for Ketamine infusions and I was laughing so hard that the nurse came in with a panic cause she thought they must have administered way too high of a dose hearing me laugh that hard. Testament to the quality of the work on show here lol

[@thisagedgreat]

Ha! Thank you. This is such a great compliment. Note for future use: our show pairs well with ketamine.

[@Glassandcandy]

@@thisagedgreat keep up the great work m8! I haven’t followed a new channel this closely in a long time, excited I got something to look forward to mondays about now!

[@CalebLLShow]

@@thisagedgreatI laughed sooo hard at just you describing this

[@trolojolo6178]

Must be a sad life, being addicted to drugs just to enjoy something.

[@chrisR-B]

Except ketamine wouldn’t cause laughter in any form and the “nurse” would have known that. This is a fake story

[@luciferherring9210]

They left out the ending though where he realized that he actually really missed her and didn't know what to do without her and when she came back from Italy he tried to sweep her off her feet and she was like "No no, ring first" and he happily gave it back to her.

[@ER1CwC]

This film is so sexist that I’m not sure that it is sexist.

[@ChrizzeeB]

The weirdest thing about it isn't the barefaced chauvinism - it's the fact that he had a DREAM WIFE, who didn't do anything wrong - and he didn't want her..

[@DJVARAO]

He just needed her for the cartoons. For everything else he had the butler! 😂

[@Bonez0r]

@@DJVARAO Exactly. Butlers before bitches!

[@HaveCarapace]

He already had a butler AND a Men's Club

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

I love this movie. DISTURBING TRUE FACT: this movie's events are loosely based on a REAL life incident, even though the movie changed up several things. During the early to mid 1950's, one of the top five most popular comic books was called "CRIME DOES NOT PAY". Artist Bob Wood was the co-creator of the comic (he's credited as the artist, but he HEAVILY contributed to plotting out the stories, even though writer Lev Gleason gets writing credit because he added dialogue). Anyway, Bob Wood had an incredibly dark side and it's been rumored that MANY of the highly disturbing crime stories in "Crime Does Not Pay" are heavily based on real life horrible stuff he really did and he saw others do (he hanged out with legit dangerous criminals). Anyway, when the federally mandated "Comics Code" censorship kicked in during the mid-1950's, "Crime Does Not Pay" was eventually forced into cancellation since all the new censorship rules harmed the comic. Well... That's when Bob Wood started to go REALLY ballistic. Around 1958, having a hardcore drinking problem, gambling problems, and not being able to find comic art work due to the "comics code" causing tons of comic companies to go out of business (as well as him having a bad attitude reputation among other comic professionals), he eventually went to the "point of no return". There was an escort that he regularly went to for years. NOT his wife, but this escort was as close to a wife this comic artist had. After several days together, an argument happened, which resulted in comic artist Bob Wood going all Jason Voorhees on her (I won't go into details, but let's just say some of his clothes were drenched in red when he was finished). Sometime during 1958 / 1959 he was thrown in prison, but only for a few years since it was considered "manslaughter" (let's just say the judge didn't take the murder as serious since he didn't have high regards for escorts). By 1963... Bob Wood was out of prison. RUMOR has it he was going to draw a comic based on the murder he did. That didn't happen since he got ran over by a car (some speculate that this was NOT an accident and someone ran him over on purpose, revenge over what he did). Two years later, this movie came out.

[@Strider258]

“The past was doin’ it’s best…”

[@zackjameson6763]

@@Strider258This tagged onto the end of this lengthy informative post was fantastic 😂

[@jessicasteele2761]

Holy crap

[@babu357]

so creepy

[@hopefullyhelping6664]

I can’t tell if the movie is an excellent satire or legitimately harrowing.

[@maemadl54]

I watched this right after seeing the Barbie movie and the mental whiplash almost took me out for good

[@RogueB]

See also: 1967's "Guide for the Married Man" dir. Gene Kelly, starring Walter Matthau. It's about how to cheat on your wife and get away with it, with comedic vingettes starring Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Terry-Thomas (the butler in this movie), and more. Both Jack Lemmon's and Walter Matthau's characters are married to gorgeous, sweet, loving women who adore them, cook for them, do everything for them, and the men are like, "ugh, the ol' ball and chain 🙄." But in the end they learn a very valuable lesson, because Hollywood can't endorse naughty behavior like cheating on our meeting your wife, oh no. Must end your movie righteously. 😌

[@rjbarnett1116]

I wonder, for no reason in particular, if Luigi Mangione’s lawyer has seen this movie.

[@xozegraf7179]

True fact: the construction scene was filmed at the actual construction of the World Trade Tower two.

[@122334455v]

The " what's up?!" Killed me

[@jaykaufman9782]

The "Brash Brannigan" becomes the family comedy "The Brannigans" story arc was inspired by the cartoon strip "Blondie." Blondie and Dagwood began as a pair of hip night-club-hopping kids. Blondie was a 1920s-style flapper named "Blondie Boopadoop," while "Dagwood Bumstead" was the millionaire heir to his daddy's fortune. Artist-writer Chic Young created the two cool kids in 1930 to jump on the Jazz Age bandwagon. But the stock market crashed in 1929, the Great Depression followed, and Chic Young decided the public would soon hate the couple -- so he had them get married, they stopped drinking, Bumstead somehow stopped being a millionaire, and the strip ran for decades about a normal middle-class couple.

[@rodneykingston6420]

I once had a conversation with a friend about this movie and we agreed that it is actually a stealth-subversive movie: Lemon is reunited with his wife and it is suggested that marriage actually worked out for him in the end, in the typical Hollywood way, but before that, there's plenty of little subtle suggestions that for an already successful man, marriage is a trap and a mistake. One funny scene implies that women actually strive to make their husbands fat as a mark of ownership.

[@RandomOldPerson]

The butler is obviously extremely gay for Jack Lemmon from the get go. But because this was back when having a gay guy in a movie that survived the movie was nearly illegal he has to get married off at literally the last second to a maid he’d never seen before.

[@marceelino]

Sounds like you are projecting.

[@RandomOldPerson]

@@marceelino Nope. I just know the rules of how gay people were hidden in movies back then.

[@MsMarco6]

yeah it's like how they'd make movies about gangsters and make them seem like the coolest guys ever only for them to meet some contrived comeuppance right at the end. The rat pack made a few movies that went exactly like that, Oceans 11, that Robin Hood one.

[@-xirx-]

​@@RandomOldPerson I see your thinking, but that actor is very famous for playing misogynistic uber-batchelor characters, NEVER gay one's. It was the 60's, so their perennial bachelor for life characters might come across as closeted homosexuality to us in the 21st century.

[@-xirx-]

The actors name is Terry Thomas. Wikipedia him, and you'll see what I mean.

[@erinmalone2669]

The way the second guy in the video said, "What's that?" In response to the outlandish things makes me think you should cut to Michael Bluth being horrified something his family had said😅

[@Grogzu]

1:10 this is Sterling Archer’s Apartment

[@Stevie-J]

That's the first thing I thought when he said "bachelor with a butler"

[@keithbrown8490]

Saw this movie in 1970 on CBS tv at my Uncle's home with my cousins as it was running ,my Aunt came in asked "What was playing " and my uncle in the best deadpan response replied "How to Murder Your Wife", it's an educational movie" . The entire room of us kids burst out laughing ! Note the butler in the move is the great Terry-Thomas and his reactions and line deliveries still make me laugh out loud to this day. So many funny scenes as it was a satire then and you can watch this today with your girlfriend or wife and I hope laugh together at the satire of life it was looking at .

[@Ocyla]

7:55 that "What's up?" I just lost it fr 🤣

[@DetectiveTrupo203]

I want an Italian cake lady

[@AnCoilean]

The OJ Simpson trial

[@angry_eck]

30 years prior

[@davidvondoom2853]

How people wanted Joker 2 to end.

[@FritzMonorail]

I remember this movie! My brother was watching it and he turned it off because the guy had it good and he was being an idiot.

[@debtrunner7929]

@ 0:44 when you say in the "kitchen where they belong!" sounds like the guy who makes MinuteHour

[@janskypolansky]

I saw this movie, when I was a kido, but I couldn't find it again. (Google didn't help me if I tried searching with words like 'wife' 'murder' and 'movie') But now I've found it! Thank you Ben! Thank you Jordan!

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@dfghjdefrgthxcv]

And now all your devices are on the FBI’s watch list.

[@iniratagen9740]

Reminds me of "What About Bob". it's about a therapist Looney tunes style trying to kill his client who coincidentally ran into him on vacation and made friends with his family.

[@joecope9935]

There was nothing coincidental about Bob running into Dr. Marlow on vacation. He scams the doctor's location from his receptionist.

[@maef7026]

So he's just a tracer really. The just traces from the photographs, that's why he NEEDS them. / 8:40 What's depressing is this could actually happen in real life. Gisèle Pélicot's case is still ongoing and a lot of people are boohooing over the lives of the criminals instead of the victim.

[@BlueNorth313]

Who is Gisèle Pélicot?

[@maef7026]

@@BlueNorth313 71-year-old Frenchman drugged his wife (Gisèle Pélicot) and invited dozens of strangers to grape her over a nine-year period while she was unconscious. There is video evidence and everything, they're refusing to release the footage to the public because of how disturbing and violent it is but in court they're trying to prove that "it's not that bad".

[@JayDee-b5u]

@@maef7026 sounds like fake news. the 'story' is real but the happenings are not.

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

I can’t tell you how appalled I was finding out about that story, I know of Marital gRape, but that story was that tenfold. If somebody’s uncertain, ask the person receiving that action, or just leave, I’ve been part of anonymous scenes before, but I have still received express and direct consent from the person, not the person’s partner, but that person themselves.

[@TheVampireAzriel]

I haven't seen the movie, but it seems like he's drawing by hand, he just wants to see the scenes as he does it, kind of like figure drawing when people have a person sitting on a stool and draw them as they see it.

[@koobs4549]

So this is basically, Jury Nullification: The Movie? 😂

[@lucashoermann1736]

Subscribed! I watched the Cruising video 3 times! These are great!

[@shmackydoodRon]

I wish I had an Italian cake lady.

[@JamilaJibril-e8h]

I didn't know she was his wife 😮😮😮

[@hollystop]

That’s the END of the movie?!?!? Bruh

[@lissaquon607]

The end is she comes back - and they reunite. The butler is pissed but then sees the hot Italian Mother in Law and finds himself changing his mind. End Credits.

[@boilabum]

You guys need more views. This shit is gold.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@RoxyXStrawberry]

This was hysterical!!! Such a cool idea. Thanks for explaining the plot so brilliantly! 😂😂😂

[@Emiliapocalypse]

lol the women don’t look sad. That’s what stunned and horrified looks like. This movie looks hilarious though, and the conclusion is an absolutely terrible time capsule. lol! I need to watch this. Thanks!

[@Spinner773]

This is a good idea for a podcast, glad i got the ad. I actually just starting getting into old movies.

[@elispiegel7875]

do you think he and the butler ever explored each other's bodies

[@Endorphins89]

Naturally naturally

[@thebinlgbtisbabadook7832]

😂😂😂

[@BlueLiminality]

Butlers before bitches!

[@awesomeness5175]

This comment right here. I knew someone else wondered. And yes, yes they did.

[@ER1CwC]

Every morning, the butler brought him orange juice while he was in the shower. So the butler got a full view every single day.

[@divinep1912]

I love this movie so much I tried to by the house from the movie a few years back 😂😂 unfortunately I was a few million short but once it come up I'll by it and when I do I'll come here first to give the update

[@00ga-booga]

My wife and I LOVE this movie! We've seen it many times. It's just silly fun.

[@__s__94]

ARE THE STRAIGHTS OKAY???

[@jamesmcdonald9313]

eh

[@cecilyerker]

Nobody’s okay to be fair

[@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259]

😂😂

[@h.w.4482]

dunno if a 60 y/o comedy movie is a good benchmark lol

[@avelynn5976]

well, this is classic "wife bad" boomer humour

[@TheCultureCommentary]

Did either of them need to act? This was the debut of Virna Lisi the italian actress who originally turned down Tatiana Romanova in James Bond #2 From Russia With Love (A role which then went to Daniela Bianchi - also italian actress) Ironically while Hollywood wanted her as a new "Marilyn Monroe" seducing men she actually married her italian husband at 25 and they stayed married for 53 years until their deaths. This movie actually is utterly absurd and a bit sad considerig she didnt do anything wrong (except possibly watch TV when he tries sleeping, but she actually did that to learn english). She doesnt torment him... she is just a bit clumsy and also the language thing on the minus side. On the plus side she is very affectionate, graceful and stunning and really just acts as a beginner at a job at the wife thing. Clearly would get better at it with time. A partiucalry funny part have sweaters to do PR for his "Bash Brannigan" comic and they both wear the same matching sweater. She serves him lunch and while a modern movie would have her suck at cooking in this one she is a real italian lady so there are no issues with her food. The ending (not mentioned here) is short but very telling. She returns and he returns the ring and they go back to being beginner husband and wife. IF there is one thing you can tell about this movvie about a man murdering his wife (or not) is that she is too damn nice for anyone to want that.

[@slendersera]

That sounds like a great movie, actually. I like absurd plots like that. Here's the complete ending, according to wikipedia. SPOILERS: "He is acquitted unanimously, and the men in the courtroom applaud wildly and carry Stanley out on their shoulders. Accompanied by a joyful Charles, Stanley goes home and sees traces that his wife has returned and is in their bedroom. Charles reminds him that killing her now would not have any legal consequences, since Stanley has been acquitted of her murder and trying him again would constitute double jeopardy. However, when he enters their bedroom, he finds her naked under the covers, and she silently invites him to join her, which he does. Charles enters what used to be his bedroom and finds Mrs. Ford's mother, who has arrived with her daughter and is unpacking. Like Charles, she has a prominent tooth gap, and there is instant chemistry between them. Breaking the fourth wall, Charles closes the door."

[@MAXXWORX]

Oh man, i love the comic drawings, they are amazing. And the woman is super beautiful. In a few scenes she looked a bit like Debbie Harry from Blondie.

[@woiowoiow190]

Justice was truly served today.

[@-xirx-]

0:56 The indomitable Terry Thomas! You cannot get better

[@hincksman]

Got to get a copy of this movie. It sounds hilarious

[@Callimo]

And this, folks, is why no fault divorce is so important to have :D

[@otkare]

I'm sort of sad I watched this. I want to experience it on my discord movie night with some beers lol. Great stuff, I've been binging this channel for the past couple days and it's so good.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@terrycullen3302]

1:42 I believe this is how notable comic artist Alex Ross does his work.

[@wellesradio]

The difference is that Ross is a painter, not a comic strip cartoonist. He uses models because he paints in full naturalistic color.

[@ForeverGotShorter]

@@wellesradio Many comics artists + cartoonists do use photo reference, though. It's just that they don't stage elaborate reenactments of what happens in their comics, they just put on an outfit similar to the characters and pose (or, if they need reference for, say, a crane, they look it up in a book or these days online)

[@JL-ze5qm]

Hilarious! Jack Lemon....classic fool...I love how YT advertises to rent How To Murder Your Wife movie right beside your post. Can't wait till the next one! I'm still laughing at your Saturday Night Fever segment...a movie I watched so many times as a teenager (for the purpose of laughing at the ridiculousness of it...).

[@johnstevenson1709]

I'm sure some one else will have said this but the butler is terry Thomas the ultimate cad actor

[@jaykaufman9782]

Just realized the shot of Virna Lisi sleeping nude in bed at 1:54 was copied moment-by-moment by Tarantino for his shot of Margot Robbie in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."

[@IknowMoreThanYou]

This the greatest channel since space ice

[@CrisisActorJonsiri]

This is WAY better than Space Ice.

[@daregul8er]

❤

[@poopandfartjokes]

@@CrisisActorJonsiriRob Schneider, is that you?

[@CalebLLShow]

I love how he says GAYBOY! 😂

[@sameaston9587]

So Jack Lemon was OJ before OJ was OJ.

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

If they make a movie "How to murder [you]" and you don't go see it...I mean that's just giving them the upper hand.

[@GravityJWST]

😂😂😂 yes yes yes, daily weekly monthly just keep em cranking out xoxoxox

[@adamreynolds2372]

If you’re doing sixty’s films, butler chap is named Terry Thomas, school of scoundrels is well worth a watch and I’d love to see your commentary on it, stars Alastair Simm as well as a few other famous faces. So happy I found your channel.

[@brutusl2786]

I always remembered the scene where he draws the fake button with chalk in front of the jury. Classic scene. Stepford wives or westworld anyone? When they come up with a truly humanoid robot it’ll happen.

[@Trickorvr]

Another great one Have yet to disappoint "Italian cake lady" Please keep them going on KZbin I will even click on ads if I have to FYI: The bucket attached to the crane is a hopper

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you! “A hopper!” I had no idea.

[@DANTE83100]

I remember watching this on TV some random afternoon while off school for the summer. From what I recall, I may have enjoyed it. But that was years ago.

[@marcuswalters8093]

0:58 The late, _great_ Terry Thomas. 4:44 Holy crap is that a time travelling David Lynch?

[@Airman1121]

Terry Thomas is the butler, he's basically 20th Century Britain manifest into a single man.

[@pastorpresent7774]

Ding dong!

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Well done old boy

[@Bella-fz9fy]

Oh,I say old chap!

[@theenchiladakid1866]

Oh My God Virna Lisi, Virna Lisi Oh My God

[@raptorjesues1445]

RIGHT??

[@-xirx-]

❤❤

[@rambler1475]

Pretty much the basic instinct defense. How could I be so stupid to write about a crime before committing it?

[@jamesbrinner3678]

Terry Thomas. The quintessential English cad

[@-xirx-]

The best of the bunch. He even turned up in some Carry On films

[@BigManJapan298]

I love these videos !! Keep it up

[@adamwiggins9865]

My favourite episode.. I’m catching up slowly

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

This is one of my favorite movies.

[@JacF6734]

8:09 Bro basically did the Punisher courtroom meme before it was cool

[@jrowe567]

Wait that's the end????

[@rkgaustin]

In the Jack Lemmon Shirley Maclaine movie 'Irma LaDuce' Jack Lemmon's lawyer tells him "they will carry you out of the courtroom on their shoulders!"

[@Thewrongshoesotherchannel]

Omg what an awful ending .

[@svenmoros4701]

If by "awful" you mean great an amazing then yes, Lmao.

[@VitaminCBable]

The ending is actually that his wife comes back. He does love her, he just notices that being married isn't as simple as bachelorhood.

[@northernbrother1258]

Wow...just wow!

[@rooboatdeer22yu51]

Ya'll should just be with other men at this point lol

[@TheOriginalCaptainTrips]

that movie kicks ass

[@andrewmaximo4485]

So this was Jack Lemon's attempt to break out of the beta male role he kept getting stuck with 😅

[@ivanatreides]

So Lemmon did an OJ

[@leradmuiel7634]

Very compelling argument to the Jury.

[@jodi2847]

I rented this at the video store back in the 90s during my Jack Lemmon kick. Totally forgot it ended that way. 🤣 Is Lemmon now posthumously cancelled?

[@angelinimartini]

I would hope not. He came out in so many great movies.

[@RogueB]

No, there's a little more to the movie than shown here. Post-aquittal, Jack Lemmon is sad because he realizes he misses his loving wife. She comes back, and they fall into each other's arms. Butler is upset, goes to leave, then finds that the wife brought her hot Italian mom with her, and butler is all 🥵. So you see, it all worked out on the end!

[@gtothereal]

greatest film of all time

[@mrScififan2]

I loved this as a kid! Ms. Lisi was so beautiful!

[@thetarotdetective3363]

My favorite bachelor with a butler is Bruce Wayne

[@thisagedgreat]

Ha! Good point.

[@Glassandcandy]

My favorite bachelor with a butler is Carlton Banks

[@CorbCorbin]

Richie Rich and who did Mr Belvedere butler for? Who did Benson butler for? 😆

[@acsaudiodramas]

Loved that as a kid - watched it with my mom!

[@TheVoidstonz]

I loved this movie so much when I was a kid.

[@mcdent6034]

Holy shit! Mango Moussolini

[@chellastation]

As a woman, I have to say the ending was great. That is the most realistic. Men want to me free. Don't murder though.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Jack Lemmon? The hot lady? 1965? This is awesome!

[@Schneeeulenwetter]

i See the James Bond Goldfinger reference - ah huh - ah huh

[@patrict527]

So I have listened to your special announcement and I came up with kind of an idea for your whole form. What if you guys continue to do the 10 minute videos and then every now and then for a special episode, you still release for your podcast an hour long one. That way it’s kind of a special treat or event for your fans. It’ll be like something to unravel and be a bonus for that dopamine hit when they go through all your 10 minute videos. This also avoids the problem that you guys mentioned in your announcement that things kind of went off the rails. Because if there is just one episode and you guys aren’t trying to continue edit and compartmentalize, you might find it a bit freeing. Might seem less of a chore.

[@thisagedgreat]

That’s a good idea. I could see doing one, an hour audio podcast, occasionally in the future.

[@Bonez0r]

Wow, that took an unexpected hilarious turn 😆

[@heath7596]

Do 16 Candles!!!

[@petercofrancesco9812]

Was this movie OJ inspiration?

[@VolkswagenNut1969]

I’ll be honest, for decades I’ve loved this movie and I STILL love this movie! If you don’t get offended and take it too seriously, then the insanity of it is highly entertaining! It’s the “Adam West Batman” of grisly murder stories!

[@jonny1943]

Pretty disturbing.

[@keithlol]

This inspired the boomers, clearly.

[@jamesinhenley]

A simpler time...

[@glitchsister]

people died

[@jamesinhenley]

@@glitchsister people die

[@lukewright9031]

@@jamesinhenley But not in needless ways.

[@thinbulb8832]

I LOVE JACK LEMMON I LOVE JACK LEMMON I AM #1 JACK LEMMON FANNNN

[@kayknouse3300]

Unbelievable! Hilarious!

[@shmackydoodRon]

He’s the Kyle Rittenhouse of misogyny.

[@coreyoz]

jajajajajaja!

[@T3t4nu5]

In the sense that he didn't actually do anything criminal? Yeah, I guess.

[@benlazar6017]

Wasn’t his case proven to be self defense? I’m not seeing the connection to that case and this movie.