I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
PG | 01 December 1975 (USA)
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Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?

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Michael Ledo

Jordon Oliver (Bob Dishy) has been fired from his job for embezzling. His wife Clarice (Joanna Barnes) wants a divorce and Jordon does a lousy Bogart impersonation. He plans on taking out a million dollar policy on her and then bump her off. But first he must have a doctor examine her...without her knowing it. Enter a young Pat Morita. Jordon contracts Bill Dana to do the job, but then changes his mind when he discovers the doctor is a fraud and he doesn't have a policy. Unfortunately Bill Dana has subcontracted the work to someone who has subcontracted the work and so on. Jordan and his entourage run around acting zany as if this was an early 1960's film.The film has many second tier comedians of the era. Unfortunately the comedy it tried to create, didn't make it. It spoofs mafia films, but not too well. Available on a 50 DVD pack of the Swinging Seventies.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity

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Rainey Dawn

Good cast and kinda of a cute film but really doesn't have to many laughs for me. I love zany comedies generally speaking but this one isn't as funny as I was hoping it would be. It's not a bad comedy film but it's lacking something I can't quite put my finger on.Generally speaking I like the Mel Brooks films and similar types of comedies... 'I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now' is in the same category but just somehow falls a little flat. I feel some of the jokes are a bit worn out and thin. There are a handful of giggles but just not bust-a-gut laughs one looks for in a comedy film of this nature.The film is OK for watching when there is nothing else better on to watch. I acquired this film in the Drive-in 50-pack collection.2/10

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rsoonsa

Apparently meant to be zany, this incredibly stupid film relates the predicament of "Oliver" (Bob Dishy) who, after being caught pilfering a quarter of a million from his employer, is given a chance, because his father founded the firm, to recompense that amount within 30 days in order to have charges dropped; however, when his wealthy wife, played by Joanna Barnes, informs him of her intention to obtain a divorce, thereby cutting off his income, Oliver arranges for a two-week, million dollar life insurance policy for his spouse with him as sole beneficiary, intending therefore to have her murdered, in this fashion solving his felonious fiscal problem. He then openly asks virtually anyone whom he sees if a payment of $25000 will purchase the murder of his wife, and finally locates a character named Bobo (Bill Dana) who agrees to take on the assignment, but when Oliver changes his mind he finds that Bobo has sub-contracted the hit to another who does the same and so on and on ad nauseum, while a flock of sub-contractors, in this poorly filmed, edited and acted affair, chase about in search of the final $6.95 assassin at the bottom of the barrel, where belongs this weakly episodic movie that is primarily composed of one-liners and gauche physical comedy that rarely is comic.

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rwint

Abysmal farce about a man who hires a hit man to kill his wife, but when he wants to call it off he can't because it's been sub-contracted to too many different 'wacky' characters. Similar in style to THE BIG BUS and AIRPLANE, but much more sillier. In fact it gets so silly that it becomes dumb, embarrassing, and even more lame than a kiddie flick. The running gag of a faceless killer (we only see his shoes) repeated attempts at killing the wife are poorly executed and photographed. Making them annoying instead of clever or funny. Out of ninety minutes there are really only three that are even half way amusing. Of the few minor highlights: a cuckoo clock in a psychiatrists office, a mexican waiter in a chinese restaurant, and a out of work actor who agrees to do the killing for $6.95. Funny character actors Darden and Libertini play several different roles.

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