A Guide for the Married Man

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A Guide for the Married Man

1967,

1h 29m,

Comedy

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44%

9 Reviews

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1,000+ Ratings

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9 Reviews

70%

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1,000+ Ratings

In this playful comedy, Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) is happily married to his beautiful wife, Ruth (Inger Stevens), but he still has a wandering eye. When he finds out that his good friend Ed Stander (Robert Morse) has been regularly cheating on his spouse, Harriet (Claire Kelly), Paul becomes intrigued by how his buddy gets away with such indiscretions, leading to a list of humorous "rules" for successful affairs presented by a number of high-profile guest stars.

Wilfrid Sheed

Esquire Magazine

Feb 6, 2020

[A Guide for the Married Man] wallows in its cheapness, and thus has no satiric place to stand.

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Joyce Melba

Los Angeles Free Press

Feb 3, 2020

To be such a pure, poor Hollywood product may be a distinction of sorts.

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Mar 8, 2008

3/5

Extremely politically incorrect (endorsing infidelity) w/huge cast of comedians.

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Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Sep 20, 2005

4/5

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Aug 26, 2005

3/5

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Feb 7, 2005

3/5

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Theodore S

Aug 29, 2018

Gene Kelly directs this salad-lite comedy farce (filmed in the swing-tastic 60's ... free love, baby!) about how to cheat in your marriage and keep the marriage. The solution? Lie, baby, lie, and Robert Morse is the swinging nerd offering advice to nervous-but-tempted first timer Walter Matthau. There's plenty of inappropriate-in-the #MeToo era shots of women walking away from you with closeups of their butts. Gene Kelly made this??? And plenty of star cameos too. Light hearted fun.

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Poe M

Apr 19, 2018

Probably the most sexist film ever made with a cavalcade of stars and cameos, thanks to Gene Kelly directing. You need a score card to keep track of all the stars in this.

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Walter Matthau

Paul Manning

Robert Morse

Edward L. "Ed" Stander

Inger Stevens

Ruth Manning

Sue Ane Langdon

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Synopsis

In this playful comedy, Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) is happily married to his beautiful wife, Ruth (Inger Stevens), but he still has a wandering eye. When he finds out that his good friend Ed Stander (Robert Morse) has been regularly cheating on his spouse, Harriet (Claire Kelly), Paul becomes intrigued by how his buddy gets away with such indiscretions, leading to a list of humorous "rules" for successful affairs presented by a number of high-profile guest stars.

Director: Gene Kelly
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Sep 6, 2005
Runtime: 1h 29m

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