Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe was never more ravishing than in this classic farce which manages to combine the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in dresses, and perhaps the most celebrated closing couplet in film history. The setup is legendary – Lemmon and Curtis, after inadvertently witnessing some very unfriendly mob activity, do what any innocent fellows would: hide out in drag with an all-girl band and promptly fall under the spell of the gorgeous Marilyn – whereupon the fun really begins! Billy Wilder, who made many crucial films noirs (like Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard), proved a dab hand in pretty much every other Hollywood genre as well; as a director of comedies, he has never been equaled, and Some Like it Hot remains a perfectly-timed pleasure after all these years. The dialogue is crackerjack studio-era stuff, delivered at mile-a-minute pace with double-entendre intensity that taught later comics many tricks indeed. Grab a cocktail, limber up your laugh muscles and get ready to chuckle in a big way.
Reviews
“One of the enduring treasures of the movies.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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When
11:45 AM Saturday, 26 February
Buy Tickets Online
Greater Union - Cinema 2
2:00 PM Sunday, 27 February
Wallis Cinema - Mt Barker
Book at Wallis Cinema - 08 8391 2777
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
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About Some Like It Hot
120 minutes35mm
1.85:1
Mono
In English
Print Source
Chapel Distribution
Mark Spratt
potfilms@ozemail.com.au
Awards
Best Picture, Golden Globes 60Voted Funniest American Movie of the First 100 Years of Cinema by the American Film Institute
Selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry
About the Director
Billy Wilder
Born in Austria-Hungary, Billy Wilder (1906-2002) worked as a journalist before becoming a screenwriter and then director. He emigrated to America after 1933 and began a career in Hollywood that ran for 50 yrs. Billy Wilder is responsible for a surplus of Hollywood's most successful films including: Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and of course Some Like It Hot.
Filmography
Buddy Buddy (1981)Fedora (1978)
The Front Page (1974)
Avanti! (1972)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Irma la Douce (1963)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Sabrina (1954)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Death Mills (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
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