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Some Like it Hot

Screening on Film
Directed by Billy Wilder.
With Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe.
US, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 122 min.

In the best of the screwball tradition, Some Like It Hot is a fast, racy, and funny piece of nonsense that borrows from every period of movie comedy: most notably, primitive slapstick and Marx Brothers zaniness. Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, it is the story of two musicians who witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to elude their pursuers by joining an all-girl band heading for Miami. Sensational from start to finish, the film features dazzling performances by Lemmon and Curtis and a memorable comic turn by Marilyn Monroe as "Sugar Cane," the band's beautiful blonde singer who captivates the boys.

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