In 1984, remaking a film in which a character prominently wears fur with the same character prominently wearing fur was not really a big deal. Unlike today, when a studio can reboot a character whose defining characteristic is wearing fur and… not have them wear any fur at all. Unfaithfully Yours (84) does switch up the fur, but I think it’s slightly improved over the original.

Unfaithfully Yours – Fur Fashion Stats

• Fur/Feather/Misc Runtime: 11:08 minutes
• Film Runtime:  96 minutes
• On-Screen Ratio: 11.60%

Find-a-Fur: Unfaithfully Yours, 1984

(All times are approximate and are affected by the cut of the film.)

• 04:15 – 05:40 – The Tanuki Coat
• 07:45 – 10:35 – ”
• 1:02:20 – ”
• 1:04:20 – 05:45 – ”
• 1:07:30 – ”
• 1:16:55 – 18:15 – ”
• 1:20:00 – ”
• 1:26:20 – 33:30 – ”

Unfaithfully Yours – Fur Fashion Review

The film’s plot is pretty simple: a rich old guy marries a beautiful young woman and immediately assumes she’s cheating on him. He rushes to a good divorce attorney– I mean, it’s an 80s comedy, so he skips straight to attempted murder. But… humorously. 

This is a remake of a film of the same name from 1948, which I also note is the last two numbers reversed. In that version of the film, the young woman is played by Linda Darnell and wears a large white fox wrap in the second and third acts where her murder is attempted. It’s notable for being the only way you ever got fox in the ‘40s, as a wrap or stole.

In this version, the would-be murder victim is played by 80s sex symbol Nastassja Kinski, and the fur is tanuki, not fox. There is not much else to say about it other than she wears it on screen for about 11 minutes, which puts Unfaithfully Yours (84) into the 10% realm, which is a decent showing. I had hoped it might have another 20% club candidate here, but unsurprisingly, memories of seeing this from when I was nine were a little “hazy.”

Unfaithfully Yours – Fur Fashion Gallery