The Notorious Landlady (1962)

When an American diplomat (Jack Lemmon) arrives in London, he rents a flat from a beautiful woman (Kim Novak) unaware that she's under suspicion by Scotland Yard for murdering her husband (Maxwell Reed). Based on the short story THE NOTORIOUS TENANT by Margery Sharp and directed by Richard Quine (BELL BOOK AND CANDLE). This mixture of romantic comedy and murder mystery is a pleasant diversion in no small part to the presence and chemistry of Lemmon and Novak in their third film together. The screenplay by Larry Gelbart (TOOTSIE) and Blake Edwards (PINK PANTHER) is amusing and the mystery elements are clever. It's a soundstage London (exteriors shot on the Warner Brothers lot) and the scenes on the English coastline look suspiciously like Carmel, California. The score is by George Duning (PICNIC) who makes witty use of Gilbert and Sullivan in the film's big chase scene. With Fred Astaire, Estelle Winwood, Lionel Jeffries, Henry Daniell and Philippa Bevans.