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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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