#88 Some Like It Hot

1959

Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment)

Marilyn Monroe

Jack Lemmon ( The Apartment)

Wilder and Lemmon team up again in another movie on the top 100. The Apartment (also featuring these two) came out a year after this, but I can see why the Director would choose him as his leading man. Lemmon is charismatic, funny an a brilliant actor for that era. I had to watch this at the second time of asking due to technical difficulties....

The storyline...

The year is 1929, Jerry (Lemmon) and Joe (Tony Curtis) are two guys playing in a band, the venue they are playing is in a Chicago mortuary, which has been slightly modified to hold a nightclub, equipped with band, dancers and illegal booze. The club is ran by some mobsters, and we see the bar being raided in the early part of the movie. Jerry and Joe manage to escape, and with no wages coming to them are desperate for a job. After they get caught being witnesses to a murder by the same mob, they flee to Florida, disguised as women in an all women band. The movie really gets going when Sugar (Monroe) comes in. She is a slightly dim, off the rails kinda woman, and shes pretty gullible too, but saying that Monroe is sexiness personified, the whole film is set to revolve around her, and why the hell not!




This is a pretty clever movie as it wants you to think the movie is about the mobsters and the chase, but really its just about sex. Initially Jerry and Joe are both fighting for the attention of Sugar, until Joe gets the upper hand. As Jerry and Joe are both pretending to be women they can get in close and find out what Sugar likes,

Joe, acting as an oil tycoon to lure Sugar in.

then Joe uses this to lure her in, when later that day he is dressed as a rich man pretending to be one of the owners of the oil company, Shell. Now while this is going off Jerry is being stalked by a rich man who owns a boat that is docked there, Joe makes Jerry take the man out dancing while he takes Sugar on his boat.

I enjoyed this movie just the same as I enjoyed The Apartment, it was an easy watch, plenty of funny parts and plenty of shots of Sugar exposing her self just enough to make it classy and sexy. As the theme continues with old black and white movies I could have easily knocked 20 mins off this, im not sure if it was just because I was very tired when watching it or because it really was just padded out in places. The overall story of two blatant men dressed as women was quite unbelievable but that added to the comedy of it all. There are a couple of things that annoyed me in this like the two of them talking like men to each other, yet someone behind a curtain couldn't hear them and a guy who had 5 men shooting at him, still managed to be alive to use a telephone, but hey, lets just say back in the 50's they just wanted a funny movie, not necessarily a true to life one.

The Scores

Visual
7/10 - Cant complain with looking at a scantily clad Monroe for a few hours

Sound
4/10 They are in a band, thats most of the music we get.

Acting
8/10 Lemmon, Monroe and Curtis all play brilliant parts.

Plot
5/10 - pretty stupid, and near on possible to pull off in real life, but that added to the comedy.

Ending 
4/10 - I couldn't believe how it ended, it just...ended...

Final Score

28/50

I enjoyed watching this movie, an easy watch if you have 2 hours to burn.

Total Movie Minutes So Far ~ 1602

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Thanks, Luke.