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.
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FilmPublisher number: M123339 | MGMM123340 | MGMLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Culver City, CA : Beverly Hills, CA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ; 2011Distributor: Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
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- Some like it hot (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Charles Lang ; film editor, Arthur P. Schmidt ; background score, Adolph Deutsch.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | COMEDY Some lik | Available | 33111009368560 |
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
Blu-ray disc, region A; AVC @ 32 MBPS; 50GB dual layer; widescreen (1.66:1); 5.1 DTS-HD master audio (English), mono. (Spanish), 5.1 DTS (French).
Requires a Blu-ray player.
English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish soundtracks with optional French or Spanish subtitles; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff.
Director of photography, Charles Lang ; film editor, Arthur P. Schmidt ; background score, Adolph Deutsch.
Suggested by a story of the same title by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Not rated by the MPAA.
Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, after which they flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
This Blu-ray disc is copy protected.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Paul Diamond, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel (including interviews with Curtis & Lemmon); "The making of 'Some like it hot'" featurette (26 min.); "The legacy of 'Some like it hot'" featurette (20 min.); "Tony Curtis on 'Some like it hot'" interview featurette (31 min.); Nostalgic Look Back documentary; "Memories from The Sweet Sues" featurette (12 min.); original pressbook gallery; "Virtual Hall of memories" featurette (21 min.); original theatrical trailer (2 min.).