How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Quine
Written byGeorge Axelrod
Produced byGeorge Axelrod
Starring
CinematographyHarry Stradling
Edited byDavid Wages
Music byNeal Hefti
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • January 26, 1965 (1965-01-26) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Italian
Box office$12 million[1]

How to Murder Your Wife is a 1965 American black comedy film from United Artists, produced by George Axelrod, directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi. Quine also directed Lemmon in My Sister Eileen, It Happened to Jane, Operation Mad Ball, The Notorious Landlady and Bell, Book and Candle.

The comic strip art featured in the film was credited to Mel Keefer, who drew newspaper comic strips such as Perry Mason, Mac Divot and Rick O'Shay. Comics artist Alex Toth did a teaser comic strip in Keefer's style that ran in The Hollywood Reporter and in several newspapers promoting the film for ten days prior to its theatrical opening.

  1. ^ "How to Murder Your Wife, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, 2013.