How to Murder Your Wife

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His attorney Harold's list of potentional grounds for divorce for cartoonist Stan includes "insanity."
Dr. Bentley asks stan about his medical history: "melancholia?" (0:41)

Butler Charlie tells Stan, referring to Stan's wife, "This woman is mad, stark raving mad." (0:46)

The pharmacist tells Stan, "excellent tranquilizer Mr. Ford... removes excessive inhibitions... almost completely without harmful side effects... dangerous only when taken with alcohol." (1:15)

Stan drops an unidentified drug into a drink. (1:17)

Stan's cartoon shows him putting "goofballs" in his wife's drink." (1:28)

On the witness stand Dr. Bently explains the drug with a long made up name to the court: "You can just call them goofballs."
Attorney: "Anyway doctor it is your opinion that these goofballs can under certain conditions be extremely dangerous?"
Bently: "Only if taken in conjunction with alcohol... Oh, you get a little high..." (1:37)

Stan says, "I did slip her a Mickey." (1:53)

barbiturate | chloral hydrate | inhibition | insane | melancholia | sedative-hypnotic | side effect

Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff 1965