Some Like It Hot

NR 8.2
1959 2 hr 2 min Comedy , Crime , Romance

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

  • Cast:
    Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon , Marilyn Monroe , George Raft , Pat O’Brien , Joe E. Brown , Nehemiah Persoff

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Reviews

UnowPriceless
1959/03/19

hyped garbage

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CrawlerChunky
1959/03/20

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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AshUnow
1959/03/21

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Zandra
1959/03/22

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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jacobjohntaylor1
1959/03/23

Some like it boring. But not me. This is a very boring movie. With a very boring story line. It is not funny at all. I do not knew people like it. How boring does a comedy have to be before people do not like it.

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ctyankee1
1959/03/24

Marilyn Monroe wearing dresses that expose a lot of her breast and a dress that goes so far down she might as well wear nothing. This is awful for a movie made in 1959.Tony Curtis dressing up as a female, changing and his voice is not funny.The reason for the men dressing up as women is stupid and I don't think the reason the writers use is legitimate for dressing up men like women to escape gangsters.This is a movie transsexuals will enjoy. A lot of series with homosexuals are being put back on TV like: Frasier with 2 gays in real life but are his father and his brother on TV, Modern Family-gay fathers, Will and Grace-more homos, Murder she wrote has many homosexual actors, Ellen series she is a homosexual.Who is TV, Comcast and other trying to promote.TV makes me sick I am starting to hate TV

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karltondolo
1959/03/25

What can I say. Even now after 50 years, this film still holds up as one of the funniest films of all time. I see where movies like Mrs Doubtfire and Big momma house got their insparations from. This film really is a masterpiece and I really enjoyed it when I watched it on Now TV. Yea, I recommend this film. Suitable for all ages. Well, maybe a PG, as there is a lot of gun action. Overall, great film.

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weezeralfalfa
1959/03/26

For the most part, I enjoyed this very unusual farce. Casting two men who made themselves up as women in order to escape the wrath of a murderous Chicago gang was a clever plot idea. The incorporation of the historic St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre into the screenplay provides some diversion from the business of trying to continue fooling people into believing that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are women. Tony and Jack are the principal comedy team. We have 2 other actors: Marilyn Monroe and Joe E. Brown, who are principally strait men for the comedians. The members of 2 gang also serve, to a limited extent, as straight men. The casting was near perfect. Tony and Jack made a great comedy team, and were made up to look like women about as well as possible. The main problems were their manner of walking and their voices, which should have given them away as men. This is a major weakness of the screen play: perhaps fatal if that bothers you too much. Sadly, much of stage and film humor relies on victims who are unusually nonobservant, clumsy or stupid. This reduces the comedic value. Implausible happenings and connections between scenes are frequent in this film. Again, too many of such reduces the comedic value of the film. However, as in this film, this significant negative can often be compensated for by sufficient truly funny happenings. Also, children are no doubt generally less bothered by implausible happenings, judging by the popularity of animations. The scene where various members of the female band gradually squeeze into Jack's(as female)train berth because he has some bootleg liquor reminds me of the famous scene in The Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera", where more and more people have a reason to squeeze into their tiny hotel room, falling and climbing all over each other, until the last one opens the door and half spill out. In addition to masquerading as a woman, Tony masquerades as a rich sea captain, several times going back and forth between one disguise and the other, primarily for the purpose of seducing Marilyn. Clearly, he is trying to imitate Cary Grant's manner of speaking as the captain, reasonably successfully. This somewhat reminds me of a later film starring Tony: "The Great Imposter", where he successfully masquerades as a number of men in their work.It's clear from a comment by Joe E. Brown that the title means that some people prefer jazz. As usual, Marilyn plays an innocently slutty gold-digger. And, as with so many of her later films, sounds like she was a basket case much of the time, showing up very late or not at all, forgetting her lines, crying and complaining. The director had to put up with these distractions because the public still loved her.

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