I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

1975 "The Zaniest Characters Ever Assembled in One Motion Picture"
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

3.4 | 1h27m | PG | en | Comedy

Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?

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3.4 | 1h27m | PG | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: December. 01,1975 | Released Producted By: Cinema Arts Productions , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?

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Cast

Bob Dishy , Joanna Barnes , Bill Dana

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Steven Hilliard Stern

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Michael Ledo Jordon Oliver (Bob Dishy) has been fired from his job for embezzling. His wife Clarice (Joanna Barnes) wants a divorce and Jordon does a lousy Bogart impersonation. He plans on taking out a million dollar policy on her and then bump her off. But first he must have a doctor examine her...without her knowing it. Enter a young Pat Morita. Jordon contracts Bill Dana to do the job, but then changes his mind when he discovers the doctor is a fraud and he doesn't have a policy. Unfortunately Bill Dana has subcontracted the work to someone who has subcontracted the work and so on. Jordan and his entourage run around acting zany as if this was an early 1960's film.The film has many second tier comedians of the era. Unfortunately the comedy it tried to create, didn't make it. It spoofs mafia films, but not too well. Available on a 50 DVD pack of the Swinging Seventies.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity
JohnHowardReid I guess I'm midway between the few people who liked the film and the multitude who hated it. With a bit of astute editing, it could be rendered mildly amusing in a bizarre sort of way. But as it is, it way out- stays its welcome. The plot starts off with a reasonably amusing situation, but just gets so utterly bizarre and so sillier and sillier the more it progresses that you feel like leaving the theater. But you hang on to see to what depths it can plummet when the even more dopey characters join the cast. It would seem that the director exercised no control over his players at all, but just let them do whatever they liked. And we all know what actors like to do. No matter how large or small, significant or insignificant, important or unimportant their roles, every single one of them will strive to attract the greatest attention to their characterizations - and nuts to everyone else in the scene! But directors should be a wake-up to the aspirations of bit players. So in this case, put the blame for this debacle on the director first and the players a long way second.
Rainey Dawn Good cast and kinda of a cute film but really doesn't have to many laughs for me. I love zany comedies generally speaking but this one isn't as funny as I was hoping it would be. It's not a bad comedy film but it's lacking something I can't quite put my finger on.Generally speaking I like the Mel Brooks films and similar types of comedies... 'I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now' is in the same category but just somehow falls a little flat. I feel some of the jokes are a bit worn out and thin. There are a handful of giggles but just not bust-a-gut laughs one looks for in a comedy film of this nature.The film is OK for watching when there is nothing else better on to watch. I acquired this film in the Drive-in 50-pack collection.2/10
Gary Imhoff The mystery is how it could be so bad. The cast is a great collection of comic character actors of the 1970's. The writer has a top-notch resume filled with wonderful comic scripts, including his collaborations with Woody Allen (the early movies, when Woody Allen movies were funny), and the director isn't incompetent. There are even some good lines in the script. (One attempt on Joanna Barnes' life is introduced by a shot of a shark in a swimming pool, with a sign by the pool reading, "Acme Shark Rentals." Bob Dishy's psychiatrist is confined to a straight-jacket; Dishy asks him why, and the psychiatrist replies, "We can't all be fashion-plates.") But the result is a mess. The actors and the director seem to have responded to what they knew was a failing movie with desperation -- "maybe if we play this broader, louder, quirkier, more over-the-top, we can make it funny." They can't, and they don't.So what went wrong? The temptation, this having been a product of Hollywood in the 1970's, is to wonder who was on what drugs. If that isn't the explanation, I'd love to hear what was.