The Seven Year Itch (Blu-ray)

It TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 31, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1955
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 23,470
Despite the script's cleverness, the presence of Tom Ewell, who is a first rate comedian and Oscar Homolka, who has long been a first rate actor, the entire film continually misses fire and fizzles out, like defective fireworks. Full Review
The New Republic
Jan 23, 2013
Monroe flaunts her attributes too blatantly, and seems less human because of it, while George Axelrod's play, fresh and risqué in the '50s, now appears a little obvious and over-plotted. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- Monroe takes over the movie the minute she appears onscreen, wearing impossible outfits and telling the most ridiculous stories with the lightest touch. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Mar 30, 2014
This is a wonderful comedy performance. So too, somewhat surprisingly, is Marilyn Monroe's. Full Review
The Spectator
Jun 19, 2018
Rating: B- -- Though not one of Billy Wilder's good films, this sex farce is symptomatic of the mores of the 1950s, offering Marilyn a part that's variation of her "dumb" blondes. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Aug 2, 2012
Rating: 3/5 -- Very dated and not consistently funny but famous for the iconic Marilyn air-vent shot and a close to the under-wire smuttiness. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Feb 2, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- Marilyn Monroe comedy is cute but won't interest most kids. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jul 26, 2014

Product Description:

It's possible that the legendary scene in which Marilyn Monroe's dress is blown skyward while she stands on a subway grating now dwarfs Billy Wilder's adaptation of George Axelrod's hit stage comedy in the same way that the 50-foot billboard of the scene bestrode Times Square in 1955. It stars Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book publisher who remains in Manhattan while his wife and son go off to the country on vacation. Once alone, he's consumed with sexual fantasies about various women from his past as well as the eye-popping model/actress (Marilyn Monroe), who's just moved into the apartment above. Hoping for some action, he invites his neighbor to dinner, but the combination of his amusingly nervous bumbling and her belief in the innocence of his intentions guarantees that nothing happens. Despite his guiltlessness, he begins to imagine that his fantasies are being broadcast nationwide, with his wife part of an eager audience. In his parody of film romance, Wilder hilariously skewers several, including FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and his particular bête noire BRIEF ENCOUNTER, even having the hapless businessman fantasize about the latter's theme as an aphrodisiac. Although censors excised the play's raison d'être of adultery, Ewell brilliantly manages the tricky feat of making a man seem risibly guilty despite having done nothing, and Monroe as the iconic 'girl' deftly parodies her screen image.

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