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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1955 DVD Release: 05/29/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 23 Genres: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sex Comedy, Urban Comedy, Domestic Comedy

Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd foresworn upon getting married (in one of the fantasies, Ewell and Marguerite Chapman parody the beach rendezvous in From Here to Eternity). He is jolted back to reality when he meets his new neighbor--luscious model Marilyn Monroe. Inviting Monroe to dinner, Ewell intends to sweep her off her feet and into the boudoir. Things don't quite work out that way, thanks to Ewell's clumsiness (and essential decency) and Monroe's naivete. Still, Ewell becomes convinced that his impure thoughts will somehow be transmitted to his vacationing wife and to the rest of the world, leaving him wide open for scandal and ruination. In the original play, the husband and the next-door neighbor did have an affair, but both play and film arrived at the same happy ending, with Ewell and his missus contentedly reunited at summer's end. Featured in the cast of The Seven Year Itch are Robert Strauss as a lascivious handyman, Sonny Tufts as Evelyn Keye's former beau, Donald MacBride as Ewell's glad-handing boss, and veteran Broadway funny man Victor Moore in a cameo as a nervous plumber. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Marilyn Monroe - The Girl
Tom Ewell - Richard Sherman
Evelyn Keyes - Helen Sherman
Sonny Tufts - Tom MacKenzie
Robert Strauss - Kruhulik

Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch is given the superb DVD treatment by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The film's picture (anamorphic widescreen 2.55.1), with a new high-definition transfer, really shines throughout. Wilder's color palette is in full blossom here, and the remastered picture keeps things nicely balanced. Never before has the film looked this good on home video. To illustrate what a beautiful job 20th Century Fox did, the disc contains a comparison between the old video pan-and-scan transfer and the new digital one. The soundtrack has also been remastered and is offered in English 3.0, English stereo, and French mono. Also included on the DVD are the original American and Spanish theatrical trailers; a brief Movietone newsreel showing Monroe and her ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio attending the film's sneak preview; an interesting episode of AMC Backstory dealing with the making of the picture, which contains interviews with Wilder, and others; and best of all, two deleted scenes that hint at the ribald heights the film attempted before the censors had their way with it. The Seven Year Itch is available separately or as a part of Fox's =Marilyn Monroe: Diamond Collection six-disc set. ~ Derek Hill, All Movie Guide