Good Neighbor Sam
- Jack Lemmon: Sam Bissell
- Dorothy Provine: Minerva "Mini" Bissell
- Mike Connors: Howard Ebbets
- Edward Andrews: Mr. Burke
- Louis Nye: Siobhan Shiffner, private
- Robert Q. Lewis: Earl
- Edward G. Robinson: Simon Nurdlinger
- Anne Seymour: Irene Krump
- Joyce Jameson: Woman
- Charles Lane: Jack Bailey
- Linda Watkins: Edna
- Peter Hobbs: Phil Reisner
- Tristram Coffin: Sonny Blatchford
- Neil Hamilton: Larry Boling
- Riza Royce: Miss Halverson
- William Forrest: Millard Mellner
Lend me your husband is an American comedy film from 1964, with the main actors Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider. It is based on the novel by Jack Finney.
Action
Sam Bissell worked for the advertising agency Burke & Hare in San Francisco. As an important customer of the Agency, Simon Nurdlinger, complained about the unethical advertising agency, Sam comes with his idea, quite align Advertising in the American average Joe and his needs, just right. Burke & Hare gets the order for the next advertising campaign of Nurdlinger and Sam is promoted to responsible advertising clerk for Nurdlinger products.
Enthusiastically he wants at home with his wife mini celebrate his ascension he meets her friend Janet, who has just arrived from Europe. Janet has inherited from her grandfather $ 15 million. There's just one catch to the heir can, they have to live with her husband Howard. However, at present she is living apart from him and the divorce process is running. If someone can prove that they are no longer with her husband together, the inheritance would fall to their relatives Irene and Jack.
Irene and Jack are naturally eager for the inheritance and visit Janet, who rented the house next door the Bissell to check whether it meets the conditions of the will. Janet is in dire need and gives Sam happened to be present when her husband Howard from. But the relatives are suspicious and hire a private get to the bottom of it.
Janet convinces Sam to continue to play its role and would like to participate with him a million dollars to the estate. The situation as Mr. Burke is complicated for Sam's idea seeks an ideal average married couple, and for Sam himself chooses, together with his wife Janet. Where Mr. Burke Janet holds for the wedded wife of Sam, as he has never seen the real Mrs. Bissell before.
Meanwhile, the real husband Howard wants to return to Janet. He will be inducted into the matter and lives with Mini, while Sam stays at the home of Janet until it can take the inheritance finally.
As will be set up anywhere in the city billboards that show Sam and Janet as a couple Bissell, dizziness threatened to fly up. In a nighttime rescue Sam, Janet and Howard paint over the treacherous posters.
In the end, Sam can back to his Minerva and Howard to the newly minted millionaire Janet.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film: Unassuming entertaining comedy based on familiar dream factory patterns with a starring role for Jack Lemmon.
Awards
Jack Lemmon was nominated in 1966 for his portrayal of a British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Actor.