Some like it hot / Ashton Productions Inc. presents a Mirisch Company picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond ; produced and directed by Billy Wilder.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2964DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 950.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Edition: Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (121 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681435213
- 1681435217
- Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr. ; music, Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Ted Haworth ; editor, Arthur P. Schmidt.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | COMEDY SOME LIK | Available | 33111010006324 | |||||
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Main Library | DVD | New | COMEDY SOME LIK | Checked out | 05/18/2024 | 33111010006316 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love , whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several weeks later, on February 14th, Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what may be her best performance). Joe and Jerry immediately fall in love, though of course their new feminine identities prevent them from acting on their desires. Still, they are determined to woo her, and they enact an elaborate series of gender-bending ruses complicated by the fact that flirtatious millionaire Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) has fallen in love with "Daphne." The plot gets even thicker when Spats Columbo and his boys show up in Florida. Nominated for several Oscars, Some Like It Hot ended up the biggest moneymaking comedy up to 1959. Full of hilarious set pieces and movie in-jokes, it has not tarnished with time and in fact seems to get better with each passing year, as its cross-dressing humor keeps it only more and more up-to-date. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1); mono.
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff, Joan Shawlee.
Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr. ; music, Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Ted Haworth ; editor, Arthur P. Schmidt.
Title from title frame.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Suggested by a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan.
Rating: Not rated.
Special features: Audio commentary by Howard Suber (recorded in 1989); new program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film; three making-of documentaries; appearance from 1982 by Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show; conversation from 2001 between Tony Curtis and Leonard Maltin; French television interview from 1988 with Jack Lemmon; Radio interview from 1955 with Marilyn Monroe; trailer; in insert, essay by Sam Wasson.
Grandma's funeral -- A bass and a sax -- Josephine and Daphne -- Slumber party -- Feminine intuition -- Shell oil -- "I wanna be loved by you" -- "I'm harmless" -- A proposal -- Cast off -- "Friends of the Italian opera" -- "I'm through with love" -- Color bars
Home use only.
Copy protected.