How to Murder Your Wife
Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!
Directed by Richard Quine
Produced by Murder Inc.
A mid-century comedy that mines dark humor from marital discord and murder accusations, balancing satirical jabs at marriage with a redemptive arc.
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
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