Jack Gilford, of course, is well known by face to anyone who has watched any sitcom, ever.  He is a well-known oft-seen character actor.  In general, I\'m not crazy about the overused \"Wizard of Oz\" ending, but it worked well here.  The husband brutally dominated physically and psychologically by a brute of a wife is a very old comedy trope, Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio, Jiggs and Maggie in the newspapers, and so on.  It has always made me wonder how the couple came to be married in the first place.  Crime thriller; fantasy.