Some Like It Hot (1959)

Directed by

Billy Wilder

Written by

Robert Thoeren, I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder

Cast

Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Mike Mazurki, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff

Genre

drama film, screwball comedy film, musical film, crime film, gangster film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

NR

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 3,918 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In Prohibition-era Chicago, two musicians witness a mob hit and disguise themselves as women to escape the gangsters. They join an all-female band, leading to romantic complications and close calls with the criminals.

fast-pacedcomedicsuspensefulromanticzanylightheartedplayfulnostalgic

What happens

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder. Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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