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Format: VHS
Apr 1998
Not Rated
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: Stereo, HiFi
105 min.
Color
UPC: 086162104336 |
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Movie Description
It's possible that the legendary scene in which Marilyn Monroe's dress is blown skyward while she stands on a subway grating now dwarfs Billy Wilder's adaptation of George Axelrod's hit stage comedy in the same way that the 50-foot billboard of the scene bestrode Times Square in 1955. It stars Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book publisher who remains in Manhattan while his wife and son go off to the country on vacation. Once alone, he's consumed with sexual fantasies about various women from his past as well as the eye-popping model/actress (Marilyn Monroe), who's just moved into the apartment above. Hoping for some action, he invites his neighbor to dinner, but the combination of his amusingly nervous bumbling and her belief in the innocence of his intentions guarantees that nothing happens. Despite his guiltlessness, he begins to imagine that his fantasies are being broadcast nationwide, with his wife part of an eager audience. In his parody of film romance, Wilder hilariously skewers several, including FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and his particular bête noire BRIEF ENCOUNTER, even having the hapless businessman fantasize about the latter's theme as an aphrodisiac. Although censors excised the play's raison d'être of adultery, Ewell brilliantly manages the tricky feat of making a man seem risibly guilty despite having done nothing, and Monroe as the iconic 'girl' deftly parodies her screen image.
Synopsis
This classic film is considered by many to be Marilyn Monroe's best film. Billy Wilder directed this star vehicle featuring Marilyn as a sexy naive blonde bombshell. She is also the object of desire of her happily married downstairs neighbor, whose wife of seven years just happens to be away for the summer. While he desperately attempts to keep his overactive imagination at bay, the happy twosome embark on a series of harmless misadventures in Manhattan.
Film Notes
Billy Wilder originally wanted little-known Walter Matthau for the part of Richard Sherman.
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