Product Details

• Actors: Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Jackie Russell, Robert Morse
• Directors: Gene Kelly
• Writers: Frank Tarloff
• Producers: Frank McCarthy
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301798023
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,360 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Directed with a lascivious eye by Gene Kelly, A Guide for the Married Man has the illicit kick of finding a vintage copy of Playboy in your dad's sock drawer. With its zoom shots of ample cleavage and jiggling bottoms, this sophisticated sex farce is Naughty with a capital N. Walter Matthau stars as a desperate husband with a roving eye who is "ready to take the plunge." Robert Morse costars as his philandering best friend who becomes his "coach." Morse's "pointers" are acted out by a stellar cast of comic actors. Scoring highest are Carl Reiner as a vainglorious movie star arranging a cross-global tryst; Joey Bishop as a husband who steadfastly denies, denies, denies even after he is caught in the act by his wife, and Terry Thomas as a man driven to an early grave after his paramour (Jayne Mansfield) loses her bra in his home. The film's bevy of beauties includes ravishing Inger Stevens as Matthau's unsuspecting wife and Sue Ann Langdon as the neighborhood tease. Just to make the film even more '60s, The Turtles perform the title song. A Guide for the Married Man is so wrong, so dated, and so sexist. It's a wonder it hasn't been remade! --Donald Liebenson

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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Walter Matthau at his low key best, September 25, 2001

By	John R. Bridell (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN is a flic that shows Walter Matthau at his low key best. And what a movie treat to have Robert Morse, who is always at his best, playing the role of Matthau's mentor. This movie was a WOW! The plot is ingenious, not only about cheating in marriage, but about lessons from a professional cheater, creating very sophisticated skits from a stable of comedy stars including Art Carney, Wally Cox [Remember Mister Peepers?], Joey Bishop, Sid Caesar,Jack Benny, Carl Reiner, Phil Silvers, that Magnificent Man in the Bedroom of Errant Brassiers--Terry-Thomas, and Lucille Ball. Was there a "best scene?" No! No! The scenes were all-- ALL OF THEM -- Terrific! I'll bet that Terry-Thomas was still looking for that brassier until the day he died. Pay whatever the price for this movie.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Black comedy satire that delivers, February 4, 2007

By	Bennet Pomerantz "Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD" (Seabrook, Maryland) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: A Guide for the Married Man (DVD)

Director Gene Kelly (yes, the actor/dancer) directs this satire about a cheating men.

Robert Morse, Hot offthe success of the film version of "How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying" makes this film a hit by playing a Finch-liker character. Walter Matthau plays again the type he would later play to the hilt, the novice. Morse takes Matthau under his wing to how to have an affair with mini skits with famous cameos

This black comedy was strong for the 1960's but by todays standards it was be tame and cute

It still holds up 40 years later and still have an air of truth to it

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Romp for the Comedy Movie Lover!, November 14, 2004

By	Lorraine Minor "rebel writer" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

I don't care if it IS sexist and dated (and, okay... it is), I'm giving 1967's "A Guide for the Married Man" a politically incorrect 5 stars anyway because I love this zany comedy classic!

I have to agree with reviewer manuel hernandez--they absolutely DON'T make movies like this anymore because they CAN'T: There simply is no modern equivalent for the legendary likes of Jack Benny, Phil Silvers, Art Carney, Lucy Ball, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Louis Nye, Terry-Thomas or, for that matter, stars Walter Matthau and Robert Morse. (Witness the inept results of the ill-considered attempt to remake Stanley Kramer's 1963 masterpiece "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"...)

After having heard about it for years, I finally saw "Guide" for the very first time on a cable movie channel in 1993 and enjoyed it from the zingy start to the satirically sentimental finish. (Any ideas on where I can find the snappy title theme by the The Turtles?)

Walter Matthau is a treat in an uncharacteristic role as a wide-eyed suburban Everyman being tutored in the whys and wherefores of adultery by smarmy neighbor Robert Morse. (You might want to bookend this movie with the stingingly funny "corporate" musical "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying," also starring the talented Morse and released in the same year as "Guide.") A special nod, too, to the beautiful (and tragic) Inger Stevens ("The Farmer's Daughter") as Matthau's sweetly trusting housewife.

Space won't allow me to detail all the marvelous guest spots featuring the A-list cast, so just rent, borrow or buy this very funny movie and see it all for yourself. Be sure not to miss Reiner's comic pursuit of the stunning "Miss Stardust"!