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Marriage on the Rocks

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This movie gave me great delight as I really enjoyed looking back at the good clean style of movie made back in this era. The actors are great - especially Deborah Kerr - and I especially liked the interaction between the friendship of the characaters played by Frank and Dean. I wish there were more movies made along these lines for todays audience, which suits us baby boomers. All the sex, violence and action of today's films is unnecessary. Suggestiveness gives room for the imagination. I fully recommend this movie.

This is a great movie. If you love Frank Sinatra, you'll love this one. It is a light hearted comedy, with all the charm and pizazz that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin give the screen. You will smile all from beginning to end at all the confusion that erupts. It is must see for all the fans of 1950s and 1060s movies.

Dull ad man (Frank Sinatra) has a bored wife (Deborah Kerr) who's ready to call it quits. While in Mexico, they accidentally get divorced and then she accidentally marries her husband's best pal (Dean Martin). Hilarity ensues (NOT).

This terrible sixties comedy completely wastes the talents of Sinatra and Kerr who appear painfully self-conscious and wooden (especially when dancing the frug in formal attire at a go-go club!), and the script is just ridiculous. Who's going to believe Frank Sinatra as a boring fuddy-duddy? Or a thirty-something (when he was really 50)? Deborah Kerr is way too prim and proper to be a with-it swinger, and she's definitely not funny. Martin plays his usual laid-back playboy, but really serves no purpose and seems to have wandered in from some other film set. The so-called legal problems that occur in Mexico because of the language barrier are tedious and unbelievable; these people are wealthy and would have had their team of lawyers straighten it all out in no time.

This was an obvious attempt to copy the success of The Grass Is Greener, where Kerr was bored with hubby Cary Grant and attracted to swinger Robert Mitchum. That was a cute movie; this one is a dud.

Once again, Frank and Dean hold their audience in contempt with this lackadaisical romantic farce. Except for Deborah Kerr and Cesar Romero, no one bothers to show up. Another low point in the Sinatra-Martin filmography - worse than "Ocean's 11" and "Sergeants 3."

I really enjoyed this movie, not for it's cinematic excellence, but just because it was campy and silly fun. I laughed a lot and LOVED looking at Deborah Kerr's wardrobe. For the first time, I actually paid attention to Dean Martin who was absolutely hysterical in this movie. It was obvious that he and Frank were having some fun. Deborah Kerr was absolutely gorgeous, as usual, and seemed to be having just as much fun as the fellas. I loved seeing a young Nancy Sinatra do a good job with her part as well as the boy who played her brother. That kid had some great lines. Hermione Baddeley nearly stole the whole movie as the mother-in-law. She had some very funny sight gags.

All in all, this movie was good, clean fun.

This movie is a fun lesson in how to handle the marriage itch. Wife's discontentment for the boring life she has leads her to seek her value and identity outside her marriage - with her husband's business partner and friend. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin head up the game and in the end, the wife learns the value of love! Layers are also in the movie like a daughter that wants to grow up quickly, her friend who wants to marry Frank, and a crooked Ceasar Romero looking at every turn to make a buck.

I liked the movie for the shear nostalgic value. Mid century home interiors, fashionable expressions and art, drinking and bantering back and forth - like the hay day it was produced in. This is a fun movie and is clean but flirty here and there. We've watched it several times and I never tire of the entertainment value! Great fun! I didn't do a five star on it because it felt a bit short and abrupt at the end. Like they realized they had only five feet of film left and ended it without perfect closer.

I went into this movie with lowered expectations. The instant easy swing of a classic Nelson Riddle tune during the opening credits lowered my defenses, and that's where they stayed throughout. The premise is fairly fun, in a standard 60's comedy manner, with real-life swinger Sinatra playing a square who, circumstances intervening, becomes a bit of swinger and real-life square Martin playing, oh the surprise, a swinger who, circumstances intervening becomes a bit of a square. Ha ha and that's it for the often great, often slight screen collaboration of Sinatra-Martin. Deborah Kerr plays the conservative housewife who yearns for marital romance and receives it, in the end, in a traditionally unliberated, but happy, manner. OK, fine. Character vets Kathleen Freeman (cool enough to play both sides of the Lewis-Martin squabble) is underused here, as is John McGiver. Note a quick appearance of DeForest Kelley (a year prior to becoming "Bones"). As he did in Ocean's 11, Cesar Romero provides excellent spark and it is his comic skill which permits the weakest plotting of the movie (the quickie divorce/marriage biz south of the border) to pass unharmed. Nancy Sinatra is totally cute. Martin is just about dressed for his subsequent round of Matt Helm flicks. And, yeh, the best laugh of all goes to Sinatra, the sight of him doing the disco frug is unwarranted hilarity. Charming little movie, quite underrated.

this is one great movie..its a great oldie! I had to own it after I watched it on tv! The story is funny n upbeat...great classic!

I thought this movie was well done! I enjoyed every minute of if! Thanks so much for the speedy delivery.

I thought this was a lot of fun, a superb Sinatra movie that was well done. Other favorites are "Some Came Running" and "High Society". What I liked best about this is the turnabout plays and scripting, plus a great time capsule of earlier times... Dean Martin did a terrific job too as the casual playboy, who trades places with Sinatra's married life. Great fun.