Some Like It Hot (1959)
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy movie directed by Billy Wilder, with a running time of 2h 3m. It stars Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
Fast, warm, and still one of the funniest films ever made. In Prohibition-era Chicago, broke musicians Joe and Jerry happen to witness a mob hit and need to vanish fast. Their solution: pull on wigs and dresses, become Josephine and Daphne, and join an all-girl band heading to Florida by train. Marilyn Monroe plays the band's singer, and Billy Wilder keeps the disguises, the gangsters, and the flirting spinning without a wasted second. It never winks too hard, and it lands every joke it sets up.
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Cast
- Tony Curtis as Joe (Josephine)
- Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Daphne)
- Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
- George Raft as Spats Colombo
- Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
- Nehemiah Persoff as Little Bonaparte
- Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue
- Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
- George E. Stone as Toothpick Charlie
- Dave Barry as Beinstock
- Mike Mazurki as Spats' Henchman
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A few thoughts on Some Like It Hot
For more crime played as caper, Baccano! runs Prohibition gangsters, doomed schemes, and a big ensemble at the same breakneck comic speed. Or try Only Murders in the Building, which shares the delight in ordinary people bluffing their way through a world of criminals with sharp comic timing.
Prohibition-era gangsters, speakeasies and jazz
Some Like It Hot kicks off when two broke musicians witness a mob hit in Prohibition Chicago and have to vanish. These picks live in that same bootleg-and-tommy-gun world, moving between speakeasies, crooked deals, and jazz-age glamour across the page and the screen. Crime and swing, from the years when both were illegal and everywhere.
