luv ( 1967 ) dir represent clive donner production represent jalem production or columbia pictureswoeful humorous look at love and marriage and divorce . harry berlin ( jack lemmon ) be about to commit suicide by jump off the manhattan bridge when old acquaintance milt manville ( peter falk ) serendipitously scoot by and oblivious to harry intention and and blithely ask him to come to dinner . harry problem be he doesn not believe in anything . but milt believe in love and in fact he say he more in love today than he be on the day he get married . the joke be that milt love a woman that isn not his wife ( ba dum bum . ) and but she would not even look at milt until he get a divorce . milt know his wife ellen ( elaine may and whose real life maiden name be berlin ) would not divorce him and so he conspire to introduce harry and ellen and get them marry and leave him to his dreamgirl . lemmon and falk and may all play your stereotypical neurotic new york jew ( lemmon be affect a particularly embarrassing accent ) and which be suppose to be inherently funny but isn not . for all i know and it might have be in 1967 to an audience that hadn not hear of woody allen . the humor be mostly bizarre non sequiturs ( two junk dealer who do business with milt ) and patience test absurdity . there be some satire of bourgeois value while milt and after tell harry how happy he be and how he have it all and take harry to his home for dinner the home be in some hellish suburban subdivision and upon see what have it all mean and harry promptly try to kill himself again . but otherwise the film be virtually destroy by harry and play annoyingly by lemmon a a borderline special need person and shamelessly mug his way throughout . and the obvious comedic piece and i defy anybody to watch them and not sit there stone face . if you do and you be a far generous person than i be . out of 4 .