In May 1962 Joshua Logan announced he would make a film about a wife killer called The Careful Man based on a Edmund Morris from an original story by Max Franklin.

[4] Filming started in August 1965 under the title You Just Kill Me with Ken Hughes as a director and Tony Curtis as star.

"[6]: 403 The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "We have seen all this before, many times, but Ken Hughes brings fresh wit to a hackneyed theme and drives the whole thing along in dashing style.

Anna Quayle's ascent in a puff of blue smoke from her grotesque Art Nouveau drawing room is a collector's piece of its kind, and as long as the note is relentlessly farcical all is well.

Fortunately the film recovers in the last in few minutes, when Hughes shows the happy couple in a burlesque of the familiar all-screaming Italian drama, yelling at each other in a poverty-stricken hovel all squalling brats and steaming spaghetti.