This rather short movie (only 61 minutes) begins with a man named "Frankie" (Sam Stewart) playing pool in a billiard parlor when a bald guy by the name of "Bob" (Bob Oran) appears and beats Frankie senseless. We then learn that Bob is Frankie's brother and that Frankie has apparently been messing around with Bob's wife, "Mary" (June Roberts). The movie then proceeds to give more details on what transpired prior to Bob beating up Frankie. Now rather than reveal anything else I will just say that, with the odd camera angles combined with heavy editing and plentiful background music to accompany it, the movie seemed like something a person might see at an avant-garde film festival. Yet as artistic as it might have been, I still had great difficulty ignoring the basic dialogue, limited acting and the extremely basic plot. So while it may have been risqué for its time I feel somewhat obligated to rate this movie according to its actual merits. Slightly below average.
4 Reviews
typical Doris Wishman nudie-cutie
gamera6413 February 2010
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This is the story of a sleaze-bag named Frankie who screws over his brother Bob by humping and conniving Bob's young wife Mary. A fairly simple film in the Doris Wishman catalog. Available on a great double bill from Something Weird video and obviously shot in the same apartment as INDECENT DESIRES. This nudie-quickie is actually pretty engaging and moves along well. There are some crazy editing choices though with weird cuts to inanimate objects abounding. I do feel like the final reel is missing from this print though as we're led up to a big final conflict between the two main men protagonists and the the film just ends with this weird scene of Frankie seemingly waking up from a dream and regretting his shitty decisions in life. I don't think it was supposed to be a dream though. Perhaps Bob kicked his ass. Maybe someday there will be a super-duper special edition that clears up what the hell happened but I kinda doubt it.
Wishman Lame
Michael_Elliott26 February 2008
My Brother's Wife (1966)
* (out of 4)
Doris Wishman sexploitation flick about a bored woman who marries an older, boring husband only to end up having an affair with his much younger, low-life brother. If you want nudity and sex then you've come to the wrong film. This film runs a scant 61-minutes but it felt like the movie went on for days because there's really not much that goes on. The entire film runs around the idea that the younger brother is going to take the wife to Mexico and we hear them discuss it throughout the flick and that's pretty much it. As is normal with this type of film, the movie was made without sound and had dubbing go back over it so this here is pretty distracting even though Wishman does a nice job in mixing this with the film. If you want sexploitation then try something else.
* (out of 4)
Doris Wishman sexploitation flick about a bored woman who marries an older, boring husband only to end up having an affair with his much younger, low-life brother. If you want nudity and sex then you've come to the wrong film. This film runs a scant 61-minutes but it felt like the movie went on for days because there's really not much that goes on. The entire film runs around the idea that the younger brother is going to take the wife to Mexico and we hear them discuss it throughout the flick and that's pretty much it. As is normal with this type of film, the movie was made without sound and had dubbing go back over it so this here is pretty distracting even though Wishman does a nice job in mixing this with the film. If you want sexploitation then try something else.
Part of a group of Art movies a friend recommended to me
cyrenaica25 November 2022
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The Plot (2/ 5).
The plot was simple......man visits brother, has an affair with his sister in law. Brother then cons sister-in-law for money with false promises. The movie paces well, and the outside stories are minimal
The Acting (0.5 / 5) The opening fight scene was phonier than any wrestling match I ever saw and unfortunately the acting never got any better. The dubbing means that every scene involving the two main male actors sounds like they're reading off of cue cards while the female lead on the other hand, comes across as competent. There a places in the film where the dialogue gives the impression of 'padding' to make the scenes last longer.
Overall (2.5) Some of the breaks in the movies gave the impression that this may have been a made for TV movie (something quickly quashed by the movie's content). The nudity factor here is medium, and some of it is quite gratuitous and does nothing for the plot. It's too hard to overlook the flaws in this one for me.
The plot was simple......man visits brother, has an affair with his sister in law. Brother then cons sister-in-law for money with false promises. The movie paces well, and the outside stories are minimal
The Acting (0.5 / 5) The opening fight scene was phonier than any wrestling match I ever saw and unfortunately the acting never got any better. The dubbing means that every scene involving the two main male actors sounds like they're reading off of cue cards while the female lead on the other hand, comes across as competent. There a places in the film where the dialogue gives the impression of 'padding' to make the scenes last longer.
Overall (2.5) Some of the breaks in the movies gave the impression that this may have been a made for TV movie (something quickly quashed by the movie's content). The nudity factor here is medium, and some of it is quite gratuitous and does nothing for the plot. It's too hard to overlook the flaws in this one for me.
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