FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Billy Wilder - Kiss Me Stupid 

Billy Wilders Kiss Me Stupid is considered a fiasco. Wilder himself only likes to talk about his hits and dislikes his flops. Statements about Kiss Me Stupid are therefore rare. I think: Wrongly! In his heart, Kiss Me Stupid is a comedy about jealousy. Vulgarly presented with a Dean Martin who is obviously allowed to be himself. A cynical Bedroom Exploitation - and of course the American women's federations ran storm against it (no wonder, Wilder gives two of these ladies a nasty performance!). Here comes a still refreshing farce about our human weaknesses! Dean Martin plays Dino, who in turn is Martin. He performs in front of a sold out hall in Las Vegas, with a bourbon in his hand and blasphemes about his friend Sinatra and himself. Dino announces that he will then shoot a film in Hollywood. The path leads via Climax, Nevada, where he meets two songwriters who hope to make a breakthrough through him. Orville Spooner (Ray Walston), organist in the church and married to a beautiful woman and the local gas station attendant (Cliff Osmond) who manipulates Dino's car. Dino is forced to spend a night in Climas. He hopes it will be a wild night with the beautiful wife of morbidly jealous Orville. Orville is the typical wild figure. A husband and good citizen who, when asked if he trusts his wife, immediately yells "No! Therefore she is not allowed to be present and is replaced by Pistol Polly (Kim Novak), a prostitute. Orville's wife spends the night in Pistol Polly's trailer. The housewife and the hooker, they change roles (although the housewife has no idea what is being played). But Pistol Polly discovers her love for Orvill and her abilities as a wife - the pathological Orville, on the other hand, wants to protect his bait from Dino. But how can Dino be persuaded to buy songs without spending the night with the lady of the house? The best surprise: How Polly turns from a $25 whore into a loving wife, disgusted by the drinking and grabbing Dino. In the end, it's the women who practically decide how to get Dino to buy. Why didn't anyone like Kiss Me Stupid? Didn't Dean Martin want to come across as pathetic? Did Billy Wilder not want a comedy with such a bitter basic tone? But Kiss Me Stupid has become a real feat and finally we decide, the audience!