Fresh
The Great American Comedy (if you discount the Marx Brothers).
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Some Like It Hot
The movie too HOT for words!
1959 · 2h 2m · Approved
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Tony Curtis as Joe (Josephine)
- Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Daphne)
- Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
- George Raft as Spats Colombo
- Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
- Nehemiah Persoff as Little Bonaparte
- Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue
- Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
- George E. Stone Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Pictures like this, with a sense of humor that is as broad as it can be sophisticated, come along only infrequently.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
In many ways, the ultimate Billy Wilder film -- replete with breathless pacing, transvestite humor, and unflinching cynicism.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
One of Wilder's funniest satires.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
Some Like It Hot does cool off considerably now and again, but Mr. Wilder and his carefree clowns keep it crackling and funny most of the time.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
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