The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny Tufts, Oscar Homolka, Evelyn Keyes
Synopsis:
Since the time of the Manhattan Indians, we are told, New York men have sent their wives upriver for the summer. One such man, an editor of cover designs for lurid pulp fiction, succumbs to what a noted psychoanalyst terms the Seven Year Itch when he meets his new nextdoor neighbour, Marilyn Monroe.
Review:
Revue-like, self-indulgent comedy which, like others of the period (e.g. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), trades heavily on sex for its appeal. Happily it features Monroe in one of her most typical performances, effectively sending herself up, and the adroit comic playing of Ewell, who manages to make middle-aged lechery funny, while the script astutely associates it with fear of death. Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gets a fresh cinematic twist as the archetypal seduction schmaltz, and Wilder's direction produces some witty strokes, making inventive use of the wide screen.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny Tufts, Oscar Homolka, Evelyn Keyes
Synopsis:
Since the time of the Manhattan Indians, we are told, New York men have sent their wives upriver for the summer. One such man, an editor of cover designs for lurid pulp fiction, succumbs to what a noted psychoanalyst terms the Seven Year Itch when he meets his new nextdoor neighbour, Marilyn Monroe.
Review:
Revue-like, self-indulgent comedy which, like others of the period (e.g. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), trades heavily on sex for its appeal. Happily it features Monroe in one of her most typical performances, effectively sending herself up, and the adroit comic playing of Ewell, who manages to make middle-aged lechery funny, while the script astutely associates it with fear of death. Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gets a fresh cinematic twist as the archetypal seduction schmaltz, and Wilder's direction produces some witty strokes, making inventive use of the wide screen.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny Tufts, Oscar Homolka, Evelyn Keyes
Synopsis:
Since the time of the Manhattan Indians, we are told, New York men have sent their wives upriver for the summer. One such man, an editor of cover designs for lurid pulp fiction, succumbs to what a noted psychoanalyst terms the Seven Year Itch when he meets his new nextdoor neighbour, Marilyn Monroe.
Review:
Revue-like, self-indulgent comedy which, like others of the period (e.g. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), trades heavily on sex for its appeal. Happily it features Monroe in one of her most typical performances, effectively sending herself up, and the adroit comic playing of Ewell, who manages to make middle-aged lechery funny, while the script astutely associates it with fear of death. Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gets a fresh cinematic twist as the archetypal seduction schmaltz, and Wilder's direction produces some witty strokes, making inventive use of the wide screen.