The Seven Year Itch

Starring: Monroe, Marilyn and Ewell, Tom

Product Description

The blonde upstairs gives a man ideas, especially with his wife gone for the summer. Directed by Billy Wilder.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 024543261155
• Release Date: April 2014
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox
• Director: Wilder, Billy
• Starring: Monroe, Marilyn, Ewell, Tom
• Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Based on a well-known fact.

“Fact”: If your name is Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) and your wife of seven years has gone to Florida for the summer, you will fall victim to "The Seven-Year Itch." This film is based on a play by George Axelrod, who also wrote “Goodbye Charlie” (1964), and produced and directed “Lord Love a Duck” (1966). The director Billy Wilder also directed “The Apartment” (1960) and “Sabrina” (1954). As with Shakespeare, this movie is a classic; many scenes and lines have been immortalized and parodied. I am not too sure that Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto was not used to remind us of “Brief Encounter” (1945). The basic storyline is, ever since the time of Native American Manhattan's; in the summertime wives and children go south for the summer to escape the excessive heat. This leaves a residual of working husbands and the sprinkling of single women. Or, to be more precise, Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe. Tom has a great imagination, and we see many of the scenes through his imagination. As the two accidentally meet and start to converse, Richard Sherman's (Tom's) imagination only gets more exotic. I am not going to quote the movie lines or scenes as if you have previously viewed this movie; then you know them by heart. If you are new to this movie, you need to have the characters deliver them. I will say one of my favorites is when Mr. Kruhulik (Robert Strauss), the janitor, comes to clean.