Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303922188 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 630392218X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 119 minutes Sales Rank: 12290 Studio: Warner Home Video
Description: Comedy about an Italian nurse who falls in love with two American fliers during the Korean War, but marries one after believing the other dead in a plane crash, only to discover he's still alive.
Amazon.com: You almost have to jump to Snakes on a Plane to find a title as much fun as 1966's Not with My Wife, You Don't. While the movie doesn't quite deliver on the promise of swinging, naughty ring-a-ding-ding, it's an entertaining example of the 'mustn't, shouldn't, can't' school of sophisticated sex comedy. It's 'anything goes' for Air Force pilots and best friends Tom (Tony Curtis) and Tank (George C. Scott) who vie for the affections of Juliettta (Virna Lisi), a nurse. Much like David Niven and Marlon Brando in Bedtime Story, which was released a year earlier, their reprehensible actions may try viewer sympathies. When Tank is shot down, Tom keeps the news that he survived a secret so he can marry Julietta. Fourteen years later, Tank picks up his pursuit by arranging for Tom to be shipped to the Arctic for survival training. Among the '60s touchstones include a Mancini-esque score by 'Johnny' Williams (later of Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark fame), stylish graphics by Saul Bass, and a witty script co-written by Larry Gelbart. Curtis is in his element, but Scott labors a bit in a role that would have once been effortless for Cary Grant ('He doesn't have my charm,' Tank disagrees when Julietta compares the two). Clever touches, including an animated prologue featuring 'the green-eyed monster of jealousy' and a sequence in which Julietta fantasizes the trio acting out their romantic triangle in an Italian movie, elevate Wife beyond mere guilty pleasure. --Donald Liebenson
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unfortunately I had to re-order this movie twice.The first one got to me all broken up,I wasn't too happy about that. I re-ordered from another site on amazon and the service was great. The movie is in good condition and I enjoyed it very much. I love those older flicks. Thanks, Sharon M.
Rating: - A classic 60's romantic comedy with some great slapstick!
I was only 12 years old when I first saw this movie in the theater, but yet it is one of the most memorable comedies from that era for me. It's about these two carousing super competitive Air Force pilots who go to any lengths to outdo one another when it comes to women and they have extremely jealous natures.
After a brawl in a bar, instigated by George C. Scott, Tony Curtis winds up in the hospital and his nurse is guess who? Virna Lisi! Yea, that can happen; obviously, Curtis does not want his friend to know anything about the nurse. For those not old enough to know, Virna Lisi was an astounding sex symbol of that time and it was virtually impossible to take your eyes off of her in any scene she appeared, even at the tender age of 12. She had recently been in the Jack Lemmon movie, "How To Murder Your WIfe" and is surprisingly good in this movie. She has one of the best lines when at a cocktail ... Read More
Rating: - Is it just me? Or is Tony Curtis so dreamy?
Maybe it's just me. But I'm so happy that she thought he was dead! That way he can be all mine! Wouldn't that be luscious? Delicious? Dreamy!!! Silly girl, don't you know that Tony just doesn't want anything to do with you? Instead, he's going to be all mine!
Rating: - Little Known Gem!!Nicely Done 60's Romantic Comedy!!
A wartime Italian Nurse fall in love with 2 men(George C. Scott and Tony Curtis)and marries man after the other man is assumed dead later but reappears years later.It's a nicely done 1960's romantic comedy!!
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