Some Like It Hot (1959) USA
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Director:Billy Wilder
Studio:MGM (Video & DVD)
Producer:Billy Wilder, Doane Harrison, I.A.L. Diamond
Writer:Robert Thoeren, Michael Logan
Rating:4.5
Rated:NR
Date Added:2006-06-21
ASIN:B00003CXCR
UPC:0027616858993
Price:$14.94
Awards:Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 8 nominations
Genre:Assumed Identity
Release:2001-05-21
IMDb:0053291
Duration:121
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.66:1
Sound:Dolby
Languages:English, Dolby Digital 5.1, French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Subtitles:Spanish, French
Features:Black & White
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Billy Wilder  ...  (Director)
Robert Thoeren, Michael Logan  ...  (Writer)
 
Marilyn Monroe  ...  Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis  ...  Joe - 'Josephine'
Jack Lemmon  ...  Jerry - 'Daphne'
George Raft  ...  Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien  ...  Det. Mulligan
Joe E. Brown  ...  Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff  ...  Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee  ...  Sweet Sue
Billy Gray  ...  Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone  ...  Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry  ...  Beinstock
Mike Mazurki  ...  Spats' henchman
Harry Wilson  ...  Spats' henchman
Beverly Wills  ...  Dolores
Barbara Drew  ...  Nellie
Comments: The movie too HOT for words!

Summary: Maybe "nobody's perfect," as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy."Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behavior. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton