Karen Green (klg19)
Wow. We really HAVE come a long way, baby.This is a classic 1960s-style sex farce, with lots of close-ups of boobs and bums. We are supposed to be endlessly amused by the education in adultery given by Robert Morse to a seven-year-itchy Walter Matthau, despite his marriage to bombshell Inger Stevens. And we might be, if it weren't all made up of puerile sophomoric leering. This is "Porky's" for the adult set.What makes it worse is that Matthau's attempt at actual adultery is nipped in the bud, in the final scenes, by his triumphant devotion to his wife. This is textbook 1960 sex farce morality--lots of leering and innuendo before inevitably reinforcing conventional morality.Revolting.
jrs-8
"A Guide for the Married Man" is a top notch comedy starring Walter Matthau as a man who yearns to have an affair. Best friend Robert Morse teaches him the right ways and wrong ways of cheating. As Morse tells Matthau the audience is treated to a bevy of cameos by famous stars in short vignettes. Carl Reiner's bit comes off best and look for other famous faces including Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Phil Silvers and many more. The real joke of the movie is that Matthau is married to the totally gorgeous Inger Stevens. Most men wouldn't think twice about staying faithful to her.
The performances are all good. Matthau is his usual terrific self and Morse nearly steals the movie. Inger Stevens (sadly in one of her last roles) had the talent to be a wonderful actress. The movie is amazingly sexy for 1967. Every woman in the film is sexy and each of them to dress to impress. It's a funny, sexy romp that adults should all enjoy.
latinogringo941
This movie is very funny and only wish it'd be on DVD! And if so, in letterbox / widescreen! Which I know is a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Studios keep putting out the same titles over and over again on DVD; there are MANY other titles / movies that need to be on DVD! I remember seeing this film on ABC on their afternoon movie (4:30 PM), back in the 1970's, and then awhile ago, in letterbox / widescreen on the AMC channel (before they ruined the channel by going with commercials). The character of Robert Morse ("Ed") shows Walter Matthau's character ("Paul") how to cheat on his wife, by telling stories of other men who cheated on their wives (utilizing famous celebrities in cameos in these roles), and explains what they did and how they did it, and what to do and what NOT to do. The title song by the Turtles is great! A bouncy tune! Someone should tell 20th Century Fox to put this out on DVD and if and when they do, put it out in letterbox / widescreen. SEE IT (if you have not)! ENJOY! -Paul latinogringo941
Thad Taylor
Racy-for-its-time satire of mid-1960's American (and particularly Southern Californian) sexual mores, this picture features an endless parade of then-familiar faces in often side-splittingly funny cameos. My only complaint (I see some of the other commenters agree with me, some don't): the casting of Walter Matthau, at least with Inger Stevens as his wife. Not to take anything away from Matthau, who was probably the best rubbery-faced, sad-sack looking comic since Buster Keaton, but it's simply beyond comprehension that (1) a woman who looked like the incomparable Swedish beauty Stevens would marry such a schlump and (2) that he would want to cheat on her; it just doesn't ring true to me. But perhaps that's only meant to add to the comedy. At any rate, definitely an artifact of a long time ago in another America far, far away.
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