Having been caught kissing a female colleague, an assistant professor gets into hot water with his wife. In despair he asks his best friend for advice. The friend, who earns good money making up tales, persuades him to tell his wife he's an FBI agent. According to this version, the kissing incident was just part of the assistant professor's duties...
"Who was that lady ?" is an amusing comedy/farce about a single lie spinning out of control and creating ever larger ripples of confusion. The nexus of the movie consists of the successful comedic interplay between Tony Curtis and Dean Martin, both of whom are in fine fettle. Some of the scenes drag on longer than they should, such as the destruction of the "enemy submarine", but on the whole this is a pretty entertaining watch.
In real life, of course, things would not be as jolly as all that. It's bad enough, for a devoted wife, to have a husband who strays ; things become hellish when the husband falls under the influence of a libertine friend who preaches that every male is entitled both to marital love AND to bodacious amounts of extramarital nookie. (You know the type of argument - the man is just doing what Nature tells him to ! It's a biological objective installed by evolution itself !)
For those of you who are not afraid of watching a foreign comedy : "Who was that lady ?" shares some thematic territory with the French "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire" (1972) and its follow-up "Le retour du grand blond" (1974). There's also a thematic overlap with the French "Le retour du héros" (2018).
"Who was that lady ?" is an amusing comedy/farce about a single lie spinning out of control and creating ever larger ripples of confusion. The nexus of the movie consists of the successful comedic interplay between Tony Curtis and Dean Martin, both of whom are in fine fettle. Some of the scenes drag on longer than they should, such as the destruction of the "enemy submarine", but on the whole this is a pretty entertaining watch.
In real life, of course, things would not be as jolly as all that. It's bad enough, for a devoted wife, to have a husband who strays ; things become hellish when the husband falls under the influence of a libertine friend who preaches that every male is entitled both to marital love AND to bodacious amounts of extramarital nookie. (You know the type of argument - the man is just doing what Nature tells him to ! It's a biological objective installed by evolution itself !)
For those of you who are not afraid of watching a foreign comedy : "Who was that lady ?" shares some thematic territory with the French "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire" (1972) and its follow-up "Le retour du grand blond" (1974). There's also a thematic overlap with the French "Le retour du héros" (2018).