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Some Like It Hot

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Some Like It Hot

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Classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Chicago, 1929, the era of Prohibition and tough racketeers. When two underemployed musicians witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre, they nearly become victims themselves. Their only escape is a jazz band heading for Florida, but there's a problem - it's an all-girl orchestra.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are ideally matched in this crackling cross-dressing comedy, as the 1920s musicians who join an all-girl band to escape the Mob after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Yet, amazingly, Billy Wilder had originally wanted Bob Hope and Danny Kaye, and even considered casting Frank Sinatra instead of Lemmon. Curtis didn't always get along with Marilyn Monroe and compared their embraces to kissing Hitler (ironically, the name she gave the bullying Wilder). Yet sparks fly when she falls for Curtis's bogus oil tycoon - who not only boasts the voice of Cary Grant but also the body language of Grace Kelly! Lemmon's fling with his own (even more eccentric) millionaire is equally hilarious. Clearly, the personality clashes both on- and off-screen didn't prevent this becoming a true film classic, for, as Joe E Brown famously says in the last line, "Nobody's perfect!"

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8.2/10

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Cast

rolenameSugar Kane KowalczykMarilyn MonroeJoe / JosephineTony CurtisJerry / DaphneJack Lemmon"Spats" ColumboGeorge RaftMulliganPat O'BrienOsgood E Fielding IIIJoe E BrownLittle BonaparteNehemiah PersoffSweet SueJoan ShawleeSig PoliakoffBilly GrayToothpick CharlieGeorge E StoneBeinstockDave BarrySpats's henchmanMike MazurkiSpats's henchmanHarry WilsonDoloresBeverly WillsNellieBarbara DrewJohnny ParadiseEdward G Robinson JrEmilySandra Warner

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rolenameDirectorBilly Wilder

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Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2018-11-02

Languages

English | French

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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