The seven year hitch (DVD) [video recording (DVD)] / 20th Century Fox ; Chas. K. Feldman Group Productions presents a Cinemascope production ; screenplay by Billy Wilder & George Axelrod ; produced by Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder ; directed by Billy Wilder.
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[video recording (DVD)] /
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentInc.,
Based upon an original play "The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod as presented on the stage by Courtney Burr & Elliott Nugent. Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1955. Special features: Backstory: 'The Seven Year Itch' [featurette] (24 min.); Deleted scenes (4 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Spanish theatrical trailer (2 min.); Fox Movietone news: "The Seven Year Itch" sneak preview (33 sec.); One sheet gallery [slide show]; Restoration comparison; [text and video feature] (3 min.); Marilyn Monroe theater [previews] (10 min.); Booklet includes an essay by Sylvia Stoddard. Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oscar Homolka, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Moore, Roxanne.
Summary:
A plain, middle-aged married man, Richard Sherman sends his wife Helen and his young son Ricky off to vacation at the seashore in Maine during a sultry summer in New York City. They escape but he must remain behind in the heat, to make money. He sees them off at the train station, promising to eat properly, and neither smoke nor drink. He will be sensible, not play around as soon as his wife leaves like so many other men. That is until he meets his new upstairs neighbor--subletting for the summer--a stunning, curvaceous, wide-eyed blonde with a giggly voice. Sherman is already prone to Walter-Mittyish fantasies, and in a flash his lively imagination goes into full gear as he battles the seven-year itch.
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