This One Is No Longer Watchable for Me

I remember seeing this in theaters upon initial release. I know I saw it a few more times on TV in the '70s. Although it wasn't by any means a favorite, I remember that it was a pleasant experience.

Fast forward to yesterday. I started to watch it for the first time in 30 years, and I had to abandon it. It was unwatchable. Why?

1) I despised the way Stanley was railroaded by his attorney, Harold. What a schmuck that character was.

2) I despised his attorney's wife, Edna. What a *beep*

3) Virna Lisi's personality was awful. Couldn't stand it whenever she opened her mouth.

4) What was with that really ugly insect that Ms. Lisi carried below her lip. "Beauty mark" my a$$.

5) The drowning rats that are Yorkshire Terriers are contemptible. And women dressing them up in bows and ribbons and parading them around in their arms are equally contemptible. That thing should have gone in the gloppitta-gloppitta machine first.

6) I've spent the vast majority of my adulthood as a single man, living alone. I like it. And interestingly, like Stanley, I've had to deal with a number of "friends" and acquaintances along the way who voiced their opinions that there was something wrong with me. To them, and to Stanley's detractors, I say, *beep* ***.


I guess I've become a crotchety old koot. Of course, I know that some of these things were plot/comedy devices. I know that my opinion here at IMDB is in the minority.

Hey, I am a big, big fan of Terry Thomas, and a fairly big fan of Jack Lemmon. But I find it interesting that those affections are no longer enough to get me to sit through this movie. In the '60s and '70s, I would have given it a 6 or so, but now it gets a 3.