If Billy Wilder achieved nothing else in his entire career, he would still rank as one of the great masters of cinema for pulling off this comic tour de force.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:37
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's classic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a pair of unemployed musicians who inadvertently become witnesses to the St. Valentine Day's Massacre. To escape the wrath of the... Billy Wilder's classic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a pair of unemployed musicians who inadvertently become witnesses to the St. Valentine Day's Massacre. To escape the wrath of the gangsters, Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) are forced to hit the road in drag, taking the only jobs available with an all-girl band bound for Miami. Enroute, both men fall for lead singer and blond bombshell Sugar Kane, (Marilyn Monroe), but are unable to fulfill their desires for fear of revealing their identity. Joe tries to get around this by adopting a third identity for seduction, that of a shy millionaire who sounds strangely like Cary Grant. Meanwhile Jerry has his own problems, fighting off the advances of Osgood E. Fielding, a real millionaire hypnotized by his/her charms. [More]
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff, Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, George E. Stone, Mike Mazurki, Harry Wilson, Tom Kennedy, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Director: Billy Wilder
Screenwriter: I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
Producer: Billy Wilder
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
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Reviews for Some Like It Hot
This is one of the wildest farces ever filmed, but it has a lot of heart as well.
Wilder's wise-cracking, gender-bending farce is a perfectly pitched comedy of romance and masquerade
The American Film Institute voted it the number-one funniest movie of all time...an effervescent laugh riot with few equals.
Expands a one-joke premise with hysterical results, due in no small part to the contributions of the near-perfect ensemble, with each of the major characters shining like a perfect jewel.
Some Like It Hot does cool off considerably now and again, but Mr. Wilder and his carefree clowns keep it crackling and funny most of the time.
When Wilder put together gangsters, wise-cracking, cross-dressing heroes and Marilyn Monroe, he wrought a laugh riot played by an inspired cast.
You'll have a hard time finding a faster paced comedy, nor one that delivers it all so flawlessly.
Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft.
The all-time outrageous, satirical, comedy farce favorite, Some Like It Hot (1959) is one of the most hilarious, raucous films ever made. The ribald film
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