[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 "The Seven Year Itch."
This film is based on a play by George Axelrod, who also wrote "Goodbye Charlie" (1964), 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 "A Brief Encounter" (1945).
The basic story line 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 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) 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 hart. 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 the rugs; he gets an eyeful, and then makes a logical assumption.
Be sure to get the DVD as it has all the goodies that DVD's promise, including, Back-story: The Seven Year Itch and 2 deleted scenes: Bathtub & Subway.
The movie is quite fun aside from being a classic and you may see yourself in it as well.
