I know I'm going to be in a minority on this film, but The Seven Year Itch doesn't work for me in the same way that apparently it does for most people. Of course what's not to like with the provocative Marilyn Monroe heading the cast.
Call me a rat if you will, but if Marilyn is giving Tom Ewell such an itch why not seek out the best upscale working girl that he can find so that he can be assured of being disease free and go for it while Evelyn Keyes and the kid are out of town. If that's what Billy Wilder was trying to say in this film, he didn't communicate too well with me. And I'm a big fan of his work for the most part.
Instead we get almost two hours of this poor doofus Tom Ewell brooding long over masturbatory fantasies about Marilyn. That is when he's not worried about wolfish Sonny Tufts putting the moves on Evelyn while on vacation. For me it gets a bit much.
Still The Seven Year Itch was a big success on Broadway and on film, so who am I to argue about whether it's good or not. It just didn't work that well for me.
The Seven Year Itch marked the farewell film appearance of Victor Moore who played the plumber and whose career dated all the way back to the previous century on Broadway and vaudeville. He was a funny and whimsical performer who won audience's hearts for over 50 years.
Personally I think Tom Ewell should have taken the advice of that eminent 20th century philosopher Dean Martin who said that for Ewell's situation God put chorus girls on the Earth.
Call me a rat if you will, but if Marilyn is giving Tom Ewell such an itch why not seek out the best upscale working girl that he can find so that he can be assured of being disease free and go for it while Evelyn Keyes and the kid are out of town. If that's what Billy Wilder was trying to say in this film, he didn't communicate too well with me. And I'm a big fan of his work for the most part.
Instead we get almost two hours of this poor doofus Tom Ewell brooding long over masturbatory fantasies about Marilyn. That is when he's not worried about wolfish Sonny Tufts putting the moves on Evelyn while on vacation. For me it gets a bit much.
Still The Seven Year Itch was a big success on Broadway and on film, so who am I to argue about whether it's good or not. It just didn't work that well for me.
The Seven Year Itch marked the farewell film appearance of Victor Moore who played the plumber and whose career dated all the way back to the previous century on Broadway and vaudeville. He was a funny and whimsical performer who won audience's hearts for over 50 years.
Personally I think Tom Ewell should have taken the advice of that eminent 20th century philosopher Dean Martin who said that for Ewell's situation God put chorus girls on the Earth.