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A married man, left alone during a hot summer, fantasizes madly about the impossibly gorgeous woman living in the upstairs apartment. When the woman is Marilyn Monroe, such fantasies are the stuff of epics, and The Seven Year Itch is a memorable laugh machine. Tom Ewell, repeating his role from George Axelrod's Broadway hit, plays the itchy protagonist, whose vivid imagination gets the better of him. When Monroe finally comes downstairs and becomes friends (confiding, among other things, that she keeps her undies in the icebox in this hot weather), imagination meets reality in a merciless attack on the male libido. Ewell's crack timing is matched by Monroe's zesty comic flair, and the scene in which her white dress is blown skyward by a passing subway train has entered the encyclopedia of great movie images. Director Billy Wilder adapted the play with Axelrod; if the film is not one of Wilder's signature works (Some Like It Hot and The Apartment would soon follow), it is nevertheless a smoothly crafted comedy. --Robert Horton
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By SpiritChild
Format:DVD
Nobody should die without seeing this masterpiece comedy at least 1 time.
There is no doubt that this film was influential to many other great comedy films. Ideas like the main character thinking out loud and narrating the movie was used in Ferris Bueller. Ideas like using the main characters fantasies for a laugh was used in the movie A christmas story. Ofcourse this films discussion of sexual tension between males and females has been used many times in movies like American Pie. Ofcourse by todays standards The seven year itch is a classy film compared to films like American Pie. The Seven year itch did it all and influenced some of the greatest comedies of my generation(80's to present).
casting=5 stars
ending=4.5 stars
Directing=5 stars
plot & storyline=5 stars
replay value=5 stars
OVERALL= 4.9 TOTAL STARS
DVD FEATURES: The Seven year itch has awesome DVD features. The AMC backstory explains how Tom Ewell was picked as the starring role, how the censors almost ruined the movie, and Joe Dimmagios reaction to his wife Marilyn Monroes controversial subway scene. Also included is 2 deleted scenes, restoration comparisons and previews for other Marilyn films...
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Too bad Marilyn Monroe didn't have kids, to carry on the legacy maybe, because she was something. This movie sure proves it. I think this movie shows Marilyn acting more comortably in front of the screen and I think this is when she began to become a Hollywood superstar. Everyone wanted to be like her. I think this movie is really funny and entertaining and is worth a rent, but GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES {1953} IS MY VERY FAVE, THAT'S HER SECOND OR THIRD MAYJOR HIT, THAT ONE PARTICULAR SPARKED HER CAREER AS WELL AS THE SEVENYEARITCH. SEE IT, YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED!
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Format:DVD
ah ha, yes the famous sub-way scene. i don't know if the male viewers of america know how much that scene upset Marilyn Monroe because that is what American men and woman thought of her after this film. The 7 year itch is about more than that sub-way scene, so let's drop the obsession with it please. that aside, this is an excellent movie, one of the best comedies ever. tom ewell is hysterical, as is marilyn. a must see. a true classic.
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Marilyn Monroe over a subway grate... isn't it delicious!
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Marilyn Monroe will forever and always be remembered for the iconic image she created by standing over a New York subway grate on a hot summer night, her pleated white dress... Read more
Marilyn Monroe will forever and always be remembered for the iconic image she created by standing over a New York subway grate on a hot summer night, her pleated white dress... Read more
Published on Mar 27 2004 by HAPPY BUYER
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Comedy!!
Not only can Marilyn Monroe act, but she is also a very funny lady as well. Quite an ensemble cast, here, with Tom Ewell, as the schizophrenic tenant who lives beneath Marilyn, and... Read more
Published on Mar 6 2004 by Gregory Nyman
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Delightfully Modern Comedy and the Subway Scene
"The Seven Year Itch" is a wonderful film that opens up with the typical Manhattan family-or rather several of them being sent off to summer vacations while the husbands stay at... Read more
Published on Jan 7 2004 by Daniel R. Sanderman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Man, is this hot, and not because of the skirt scene
"Chapter 6-the Brubaker-Steichel theory of the sporadic infidelity pattern of the married male, or the Seven Year Itch. Read more
Published on Sep 20 2003 by Daniel J. Hamlow
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cute!
I thought "The Seven Year Itch" was a very funny movie. I really felt MM's performance - it's a pity she never got any really good parts. She's fantastic. Read more
Published on Jun 28 2003 by Helena Troi
2.0 out of 5 stars
Casting mistake
Tom Ewell/ Richard Sherman was unwatchable in this movie. I thought he was hideous, irritating, ridiculous and boring. He wasn't at all funny. Read more
Published on May 25 2003 by "sunnight"
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Cool Movies of 50's
I heard a lot about this movie before I saw this, especially for Marilyn Monroe's sexy pose adjusting her skirt on top of the subway air outlet. Read more
Published on Jan 24 2003 by Chandru Rajagopalan
5.0 out of 5 stars
When Fantasy Takes Flesh
That's the temptation facing summer bachelor Tom Ewell when, on the evening of the day he put wife Evelyn Keyes and sonny boy on the train to Maine, he finds out that va-va-va-voom... Read more
Published on Jan 7 2003 by Linda McDonnell
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE ULTIMATE MARILYN.....
This is the ultimate Monroe film. The one where she stands over a subway grating on a hot summer night to feel the rush of cool air from the trains passing beneath---the rush of... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2002 by Mark Norvell
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lotsa laughs
The movie that shows about 2 seconds of Marilyn's very famous skirt-blowing scene is terribly funny,although it was a little controversial when it was made. Read more
Published on Sep 18 2002 by Linda
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