is a 1958 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey from a screenplay he co-wrote with Claude Binyon, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Max Shulman.

Released by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, and Jack Carson.

In the fictional suburban commuter town of Putnam's Landing, Connecticut, public relations specialist Harry Bannerman is slowly going insane because his wife Grace insists on attending every local civic committee meeting.

A March 1958 item[citation needed] noted that actor Mickey Shaughnessy was set for a featured role; however, he did not appear in the film.

presents a classic McCarey contretemps pitting socially unconventional and conventional characters of opposite sex, with an emphasis on sexuality and society as the “ultimately inseparable concerns in McCarey’s universe.”[6] Film historian and biographer Leland Poague writes: In every case there is a central couple, partners who display an obvious unity of personal style and emotional purpose.

Biographer Wes D. Gehring discerns an echo of McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937), with Joanne Woodward channeling screwball icon Carol Lombard.

The generic screwball, involving “a disgruntled duo and a sexy third party” deviates in Rally from the formula when Cold War controversies emerge over a local nuclear missile base.