A Guide for the Married Man

Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. ...more

Quite dated nowadays, A Guide for the Married Man was in its day a somewhat bold attempt on Hollywood's part to take a satirical look at the ways of the philandering male. Even in its day, however, the satire was never really as sharp as it wanted to be or thought it was; contemporary audiences will likely miss the satire completely and have to settle for the film's jokes. Fortunately, if one can get past the misogyny inherent in the premise, Guide actually is very funny. Unlike a lot of 1960s ...more