How to Murder Your Wife | |
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Directed by | Richard Quine |
Written by | George Axelrod |
Produced by | George Axelrod |
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Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
Edited by | David Wages |
Music by | Neal Hefti |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | United States |
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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.