Your Money or Your Wife (1972 TV Movie) User Reviews

Fond memories...

[Kinravip · 25 July 2004]

My grandfather, Joseph A. Williams, Jr., was a prop man on this film.

I was 11, and I remember the day he took me to one of the sets in Norwalk, CT. He schooled me in the responsibilities of a prop man, using the box full of identical mantel clocks as a demonstration of the importance of continuity. The script called for the clock to be broken, so spares were needed for extra takes, as well as shooting out of sequence. The important thing, however, was that all the clocks had to be set to the exact same time. To this day, continuity errors bug the heck outta me!

Many of the stars of this film have since passed away, as has my beloved grandfather.

I still have a copy of the shooting script which my grandfather gave to me, and today (21 Oct 2011), a kind person found me a copy of the movie. I'm watching it now for the first time in decades.

Thank you, Neighbor H...

TV movies don't get any more ridiculous or silly than this.

[mark.waltz · 1/10 · 6 December 2023]

You don't like that someone's leaving their job because it might impact yours? What a better way to save your job by planning a kidnapping plot! That's what Ted Bessell, Elizabeth Ashley and Jack Cassidy do when TV star Betsy Von Furstenberg decides to leave her job as the star of the show they write and produce simply because she's decided to marry the show's wealthy sponsor, Graham Jarvis. They go haywire in setting up the kidnapping (with Bessell and Cassidy seemingly in a contest to badly outact each other) and are even more ridiculous when they go through with it.

This is another case of "Don't let this happen to you!' where writers come up with a really cockamamie idea that makes no sense, turns the characters into ridiculous self centered jerks. Bessell, in the worst fake movie mustache I've ever seen, looks ridiculous, and Cassidy outdoes every flamboyant narcissistic creep he'd done in his entire career. Only Ashley seems to have any sense, but she's guilty by association. Von Furstenberg adds a touch of class, bur still should have been embarrassed by this. It makes you wonder who greenlit this to be filmed and why it wasn't shelved immediately upon pre-air viewing.