Marriage On The Rocks (1965)

Married for 19 years, the wife (Deborah Kerr) of an advertising executive (Frank Sinatra) is bored and frustrated by his lack of attention to her. She coerces him into a second honeymoon in Mexico and that's when everything really falls apart! Directed by Jack Donohue (BABES IN TOYLAND), this is a tedious domestic comedy that feels like a half hour sitcom dragged out to two hours. There's also a slightly sexist undercoating to the whole affair. Comedy was never Deborah Kerr's forte and her shrill performance here renders her unappealing. Sinatra comes off well but Dean Martin as his swinger best friend does his (by now) tired lech act in place of a performance. The movie's portrayal of Mexico and Mexicans is particularly offensive and unfunny. If you want to see Kerr in see through negligees and doing The Monkey (or was it the Watusi) at a disco, you might want to give it a shot, otherwise, an easy skip. With Cesar Romero, Nancy Sinatra, Hermione Baddeley, Tony Bill and Joi Lansing.