The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

Great viewing, and good clean fun! (well not so clean fun) Being a guy with more than a little voyeurism in him, I couldn't stop watching. It is not a great movie by literary standards, but a captivating and comedic look into the life of a voyeur.

This film handles adult mater well without being graphic. So it's a safe movie to watch with your girlfriend. Just don't expect her to like it as much as you will. I can't imagine this film ever being so out of date that it wouldn't be a fun viewing, but by todays standards, a very tame film. Maybe it's time for someone to do a remake.

I loved it, and if you like films like "The Body Double", and "Sea of Love" I'm sure you'll love it too. I'd love to own a copy of it, just so I could share it with others.

Deadpan-comic character study from the novel by Charles Webb involving a dissatisfied working stiff (with a predilection for peeping) whose benumbed wife walks out on him while on their vacation; she moves in with her sister and masculinely-neutered brother-in-law, while the husband attempts to woo her back. Though dotted with trenchant observations about what makes a marriage work or fold, this script by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. doesn't have enough meat on its bones for a feature-length film. Without understanding the history of the young marrieds, it's difficult getting a grasp on the sullen, sulking wife or her randy spouse. The celebratory finale seems lifted straight from "The Graduate" (itself based on Charles Webb), while the points being made regarding sexual appetite and the search for identity are all rather obvious. In the lead, glinty-eyed Richard Benjamin offers different facets of the horny, paranoid male, yet he doesn't have the punchy dialogue needed to turn this guy into a microcosm of the sex-obsessed modern-day husband. ** from ****

Richard Benjamin shines in the title role as a young man who is disillusioned by his job, marriage and life in general. Joanna Shimkus is attractive and vivacious as his troubled wife, Lisa. Fine support from Patricia Barry as the psychiatrist and especially good are Elizabeth Ashley and Adam West as Benjamin's in-laws. Look fast for familiar faces Ron Masak and Bob Hastings as baseball fans and the alluring Tiffany Bolling is also memorable. A film that Fox should release for sale.

I must have missed this one at the movies in the early 1970's. Saw it on late night movie channel in 2009. I think this movie is more entertaining now that it would have been back then. Now that I am lots older and have experienced a lot since then, the impact is larger. the movie plot and scenes are very indicative of society at the time. In many ways, society has not changed. The old story of women bored and confused with life. Reminiscent of the old saying "I am trying to find myself". Women's Liberation causing social and psychological problems within the marriage. Women NOT being empowered and how to get the power with junk psychologist and in control of men. How to make the man weak and into a robot like person. Husbands, go to work, make lots of money, bring it home for the woman to spend and tell you what when to do. Husbands, recycle same thing everyday. Here, the husband is thought of as being "sick" for wanting to naturally look at naked or scantly clothed women. So, what? The controlling women and controlled men characters in this movie are pathetic. The women remind me of all of my ex-wives. See this movie and you will see a mirror of our society even more so like to today. Arousing the emotions of the viewer gives this movie high marks.

This is not a great movie, but one that entertains nonetheless. I have no idea why it is still unavailable on video. Richard Benjamin at his quirkiest 70's best, is a somewhat unhappy married guy who enjoys looking at girls whenever, and wherever he can. He also tends to get caught more often than he'd like. The whole story is a rather poor man's "Graduate" in that the lead is a anti-establishment kind of guy and he hates living in a world of rules he doesn't understand or believe in. So, we follow him on his quest for freedom and sexual satisfaction. It is a fun trip. Movie fans that enjoy watching this sort of time capsule will have a great time. It is a film that is curiously missing from anyone's collection.