Neighborhood Lothario Ed Stander gives his married friend Paul Manning a series of lessons on how to cheat on his wife without being caught. These lessons are illustrated by several Hollywoo... Read allNeighborhood Lothario Ed Stander gives his married friend Paul Manning a series of lessons on how to cheat on his wife without being caught. These lessons are illustrated by several Hollywood movie stars serving as technical advisers.Neighborhood Lothario Ed Stander gives his married friend Paul Manning a series of lessons on how to cheat on his wife without being caught. These lessons are illustrated by several Hollywood movie stars serving as technical advisers.
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- 2 nominations
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- TriviaThe New York Times critic noted in his review of this film on May 27, 1967, that "of all the witty demonstrations, one of the most amusing" in the film was when Jayne Mansfield loses her bra in the home of Terry-Thomas. The sex symbol's two-minute cameo was shot under great personal distress, however. Filmed in mid December 1966, at the time Zoltan Hargitay, Mansfield's youngest son with Mickey Hargitay, was recovering from spinal meningitis at Conejo Valley, California Community Hospital, after undergoing brain surgery resulting from his being mauled by a lion in a freak accident at the Jungleland Park in Thousand Oaks, California, on November 26, 1966. Zoltan spent exactly one month in the hospital, returning home to Jayne's "Pink Palace" on that year's Christmas morning. Though several Mansfield films were released after her untimely death six months later, the scenes in this one were, as an actress, her final moments before the professional movie cameras.
- Quotes
Technical Adviser: [after losing her bra in "the heat of battle"] It's all right, Tiger. I've got another one at home.
Technical Adviser: That is not what's worrying me. What is worrying me is my wife coming home and finding it.
Technical Adviser: She'll just think it's hers.
Technical Adviser: Don't be ridiculous.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Wars: Music by John Williams (1980)
- SoundtracksA Guide for the Married Man
Performed by The Turtles
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Music by John Williams (as Johnny Williams)
[Played over the opening credits]
So a "A Guide for the Married Man" is exactly what the title indicates. On one level, it is a hilarious comedy in which a philanderer (Robert Morse) senses his friend's (Walter Matthau) restlessness, and then proceeds to school him on how to commit adultery safely. Each principle is illustrated by a skit performed by other comedians of the time.
On another level, it actually provides sage advice for anyone thinking about getting a little on the side. That sage advice is, in the words of Micky Rourke in 1981's "Body Heat" about a completely different subject - "This is not (stuff) for you to be messin' with. Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna (mess) up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius... and you ain't no genius."
So this film is not as trapped in 60's sexual mores as other films of the decade, because married men will always want to rent a house at the beach now and then although that does not mean they want to sell their house in the suburbs and disrupt their way of life. Probably making wives nervous for over fifty years, this is a 60s film still worth seeing.
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- Also known as
- The Affair: A Guide for the Married Man
- Filming locations
- Westfield Century City - 10250 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA(formerly known as the Century Square Shopping Center visible in Paul and Ed's outdoor meeting scenes)
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- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1