Some Came Running: Palate cleanser

July 18, 2012

Palate cleanser

Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and Claire Trevor in How To Murder Your Wife, Richard Quine, 1965.

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Looking forward to seeing this again. It's been in my Netflix Instant queue for a while now.

Posted by: jbryant | July 19, 2012 at 05:23 AM

It's a marvelous piece of nonsense written by George Axelrod and directed with his usual super-smoothness by Richard Quine (a very seriously neglected talent.)

If you haven't seen it before, after doing so get yourself a copy of Chereau's Queen Margot starring a very different Virna Lisi.

Posted by: David Ehrenstein | July 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM

Mmmmmmm moooovie sorbet...

Posted by: rcjohnso | July 19, 2012 at 11:42 AM

Don't forget Terry Thomas. I never do.

Posted by: LondonLee | July 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM

This is the Jack Lemmon movie that really should be called THE APARTMENT – it’s quite a pad he’s got here! And yes, it’s great fun.

Posted by: Johan Andreasson | July 19, 2012 at 02:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYnqDIzHGI

Posted by: David Ehrenstein | July 19, 2012 at 02:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGPjGt9OE9U

Posted by: David Ehrenstein | July 19, 2012 at 02:13 PM

The Neal Hefti score is pretty nifty too. It adds as much to the film's appeal as Burt Bacharach's score for "Casino Royale."

Posted by: Howard Fritzson | July 19, 2012 at 04:27 PM

Wouldn't it be neat if Richard Quine and Robert Quine were the same person? Then he could've directed those movies AND recorded VU live '69 and played with the Voidoids. Perhaps we can petition to seek a Papal dispensation to make it all true.

Also, I fail to see the relevance of this post to Lena Dunham. What am I missing?

Posted by: Petey | July 20, 2012 at 07:28 AM

I thought my first comment would have made the Lena Dunham parallel obvious to anyone: Both HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE and TINY FURNITURE are movies about artists living in fabulous apartments.

Posted by: Johan Andreasson | July 20, 2012 at 02:09 PM

http://cogerson.hubpages.com/hub/Jack-Lemmon-Movies-Best-to-Worst-With-Adjusted-Box-Office-ResultsGrosses

An interesting site that ranks How To Murder Your Wife as Lemmon's 14th best movie out of 50 or so movies. I have not seen the movie but it is on my list of movies to watch.

Posted by: Redtownergm | July 26, 2012 at 06:28 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLj1X-TdO2U&feature=related

Posted by: David Ehrenstein | July 28, 2012 at 07:25 PM

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