Synopsis
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
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Cast
- Dean MartinDino
- Kim NovakPolly the Pistol
- Ray WalstonOrville Jeremiah Spooner
- Felicia FarrZelda Spooner
- Cliff OsmondBarney Milsap
- Barbara PepperBig Bertha
- Skip WardMilkman
- Doro MerandeMrs. Pettibone
- Tom NolanJohnnie Mulligan
- Alice PearceMrs. Mulligan
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Hollywood censors made Wilder reshoot one scene, but the original version has been rediscovered; while it's tame by today's standards, it makes the movie's caustic social commentary more potent than ever. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Its idiomatic wordplay and social satire is vintage Wilder, and the opening sequence where Dino performs in a nightclub is one of the funniest things that Wilder has ever done. - 63
New York Daily News
Cinephiles and Billy Wilder fans get a rare opportunity to see the "slightly dirtier" European ending to the director's 1964 sex farce. - 60
Village Voice
A grimly suggestive and unexpectedly tender bedroom farce, Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid is a true film maudit. - 50
New Times (L.A.)
It just doesn¹t get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast. - 40
Variety
Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness (if not always impeccable taste), has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay, and he has got at best only plodding help from two of his principals, Dean Martin and Kim Novak.
