Justifiable homicide?

How to murder your wife (1965)

After indulging in powerful stuff, decided to go light and easy with a romantic comedy. Even though sounds eerily to be filled with thrilling suspense, it is actually a Jack Lemmon's comedy. It is basically a fairer-sex bashing and an advocate of virtues of a single's life. The protagonists and his sidekick, however, succumb to the lure of the flesh at the time.

Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) has a well-choreographed life with his efficient butler to handle his daytime job of a newspaper cartoonist and his nocturnal flirtatious escapades.
His dream life comes crumbling down after, in a drunken stupor during a friend's bachelor party, marries a whipped cream bikini-clad Italian-only speaking model! The morning after, after realising his folly, tries to untangle himself from the marital web.

His cartoon strip soon mirrors the miserable life he leads and it continues to be a hit as before. Ford has his own team who would shoot photos of him ridiculous feats as a 'secret agent' to use as the model to draw. So, when writes a strip of how the secret agent kills his wife and his wife also goes missing, after reading the cartoon, all fingers point towards Ford as a wife-killer! Circumstantial evidence of him holding a mannequin in a construction site makes him a guilty party.

The comedy of the movie is how Ford manages to convince the jury of how day by day, American husbands are henpecked and have lost their 'freedom'. Ford's attorney, who is spun around his wife's finger and his wife who imparts her expertise to the new wife to rein Ford makes up most of the fun. His butler, a strong advocate of anti-marriage, even suggests to Ford at the end of the movie to murder his wife again, using double jeopardy as the defence!

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