
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagina... (Full plot summary below)
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With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagination however.
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| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe Seven Year Itch (1955) is a delightful, sophisticated and witty farce, using to the fullest extent the mordant humor of director Billy Wilder |
| The SpectatorVirginia GrahamThis is a wonderful comedy performance. So too, somewhat surprisingly, is Marilyn Monroe's. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsThe Seven Year Itch is certainly a key film for the classic Monroe image... |
| Window to the MoviesJeffrey ChenI find this movie to be a definitive Marilyn Monroe movie that happened to also have a pretty witty script. |
| About.comDiana SaengerMarilyn Monroe is a temptress in this delightful comedy. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonOne of Marilyn Monroe's indispensable films. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMonroe takes over the movie the minute she appears onscreen, wearing impossible outfits and telling the most ridiculous stories with the lightest touch. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAlthough it was directed by Billy Wilder, this 1955 CinemaScope classic sometimes seems presided over by Frank Tashlin, with its satire of 50s puritanism and its use of wimpy Tom Ewell. |
| The New RepublicDelmore SchwartzDespite 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. |
| Common Sense MediaAndrea BeachMarilyn Monroe comedy is cute but won't interest most kids. |