Comedy

Romance

The Seven Year Itch

Charles K. Feldman Group

20th Century Fox

United States of America

English

Marilyn Monroe

Tom Ewell

Evelyn Keyes

Sonny Tufts

Robert Strauss

Oskar Homolka

Marguerite Chapman

Victor Moore

Donald MacBride

Carolyn Jones

Dolores Rosedale

Kathleen Freeman

Doro Merande

Ron Nyman

Tom Nolan

Ralph Littlefield

Dorothy Ford

William H. O'Brien

Steven Benson

Milton Krasner

George Axelrod

Billy Wilder

Charles K. Feldman

Saul Bass

E. Clayton Ward

Edward B. Powell

Helen Turpin

Ray Kellogg

Harry M. Leonard

Ben Nye

Joseph E. Rickards

Travilla

Hugh S. Fowler

Doane Harrison

Lyle R. Wheeler

Stuart A. Reiss

Walter M. Scott

Alfred Newman

George W. Davis

Jule Styne

Sammy Cahn

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A funny film, though not Wilder's best, possibly due to the limits forced here by the censor board. Monroe is at her peak here, and Tom Ewell reprises his role well from the broadway stage.

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Tom Ewell is the happily married "Richard" whose family have gone away for a few weeks leaving him all alone with his manuscript and soft drinks that sound like gut-rot in a bottle! His wife "Helen" always calls him at 10pm so he must stay awake til then, and whilst waiting his vivid imagination often kicks in! That's only more concentrated when his new upstairs neighbour (Marilyn Monroe) calls in to say hello. He's smitten! She is the epitome of his desires and as their friendship blossoms, he finds his fantasies become racier and racier, more and more fanciful and all entirely unfulfilled! What now ensues might have worked better for me had Ewell been a bit better an actor, but he doesn't really deliver very well here and we wait way too long for Monroe to come and brighten things up. She has excellent timing, and looks every inch the apple of the eye as she innocently and charmingly drives poor old "Richard" to the brink! The comedy is decently written though resorts a little too much to slapstick for it's execution and I thought the joke became just a little bit laboured after an hour or so of slightly repetitive and contrived scenarios. Not one of Billy Wilder's better films, even if a passing subway train gives us some cinema history. A sort of parody of "Beauty and the Beast", perhaps, but all just a little too tame.

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The Seven Year Itch | Theatrical Trailer | 1955

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