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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301798020 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301798023 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 89 minutes Sales Rank: 15021 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 1967
Amazon.com: Directed with a lascivious eye by Gene Kelly, A Guide for the Married Man has the illicit kick of finding a vintage copy of Playboy in your dad's sock drawer. With its zoom shots of ample cleavage and jiggling bottoms, this sophisticated sex farce is Naughty with a capital N. Walter Matthau stars as a desperate husband with a roving eye who is "ready to take the plunge." Robert Morse costars as his philandering best friend who becomes his "coach." Morse's "pointers" are acted out by a stellar cast of comic actors. Scoring highest are Carl Reiner as a vainglorious movie star arranging a cross-global tryst; Joey Bishop as a husband who steadfastly denies, denies, denies even after he is caught in the act by his wife, and Terry Thomas as a man driven to an early grave after his paramour (Jayne Mansfield) loses her bra in his home. The film's bevy of beauties includes ravishing Inger Stevens as Matthau's unsuspecting wife and Sue Ann Langdon as the neighborhood tease. Just to make the film even more '60s, The Turtles perform the title song. A Guide for the Married Man is so wrong, so dated, and so sexist. It's a wonder it hasn't been remade! --Donald Liebenson
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Rating: - More like a `how not to' than a `how to'...
While `A Guide for the Married Man' is on almost all accounts morally reprehensible, it is presented in such a witty and appealing manner that one ultimately forgets just how `wrong' this movie really is.
The film follows Paul Manning, a happily married man who can't help but notice his beautiful surroundings; and by surroundings I mean busts and panty lines. He traps these urges inward and shoves them aside, but then his best friend Edward opens a new line of perspective for him. Edward is a notorious adulterer, constantly having affairs behind his wife's back, and he justifies ... Read More
Rating: - Not top drawer - but close.
This movie lacks only one thing - believeability. The acting, especially by Mattheu, is tremendous but the storyline leaves one shaking one's head. I am aware that fantasy and 'stretching the point' is acceptable in films, but somehow, one hopes for better when Mattheu is involved.
It is good enough entertainment, but I feel unable to grant the movie any more than four stars - it would have been three stars, except for Mattheu's performance.
Rating: - A Guide for the Married Man in the 1960's
Although I found Walter Matthau at his "as always" best in the Guide for the Married Man, the role doesn't do him justice. I gave it five stars as a "period piece" of how we lived in the 1960's, or more specifically, how the sexes were perceived during that time period. Fortunately I think our society has moved onward and upward from the the depiction of both sexes in this film.
To view Walter Matthau at his best, go with the DVD Charley Varrick or Taking of Pelham One Two Three for starters. For a better example of his depth as a comedy actor the The Odd Couple or any film where ... Read More
Rating: - Begs for a Remake
This is classic comedy. With all the snippits of stories this movie begs for a modern remake. If only the egos of hollywood could get it together and do it. Not a serious tale but a nice poke at the middle age male and the great lust of forbidden fruit! Dated a little...but still...great actors giving a very enjoyable experience.
Rating: - Stupendous
Excellent transfer from film to DVD.
This is great like I remember it being and shows what riskee was during a more innocent time and as with the TV show "Love American Style" it seems tame by todays standards.
Great acting and an all star cast. Cool but period music score.
I enjoyed the driving scenes due to the now vintage auto's shown.
There is nothing negative that I can say about this movie and it even has, a rare gift for the audience these days, a good moral at the end.
I'm very glad to have this in my collection and advise everyone ... Read More
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