SOME LIKE IT HOT - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Comedy; Romance
• Plot: One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers) leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out six decades ago.
• Cast: Marilyn Monroe; Tony Curtis; Jack Lemmon; George Raft; Pat O'Brien; Joe E. Brown; Nehemiah Persoff; Joan Shawlee; Billy Gray; George E. Stone; Dave Barry; Mike Mazurki; Harry Wilson; Beverly Wills; Barbara Drew; Edward G. Robinson Jr.; Sam Bagley; Alex Ball; Brandon Beach; Al Breneman; Steve Carruthers; James J. Casino; Noble 'Kid' Chissell; Beulah Christian; Ted Christy; Marian Collier; Pat Comiskey; Paul Cristo; James Dime; Franklyn Farnum; Joan Fields; Duke Fishman; Mary Foley; George Ford; Paul Frees; Joanne Genthon; Bobby Gilbert; Tom Holland; Joe Gray; Stuart Hall; Sam Harris; Harold 'Tommy' Hart; Ted Hook; Shep Houghton; John Indrisano; Tom Kennedy; George Lake; Carl M. Leviness; King Lockwood; John Logan; Hank Mann; Tiger Joe Marsh; Jack Mather; Tipp McClure; Penny McGuiggan; Frank McLure; Laurie Mitchell; William H. O'Brien; Colleen O'Sullivan; Joe Palma; Helen Perry; Jack Perry; Danny Richards Jr.; Edwin Rochelle; John Roy; Cosmo Sardo; Scott Seaton; Sammy Shack; Fred Sherman; Carl Sklover; Bert Stevens; Arthur Tovey; Sid Troy; Ralph Volkie; Tito Vuolo; Sandra Warner; Billy Wayne; Grace Lee Whitney; Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond; Robert Thoeren; Michael Logan
• Director: Billy Wilder
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: Ashton Productions, Mirisch Company, The Criterion Collection, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists (UA), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie