Some Like It Hot [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Billy Wilder

Overview

In 1920s Chicago, down-on-their-luck musicians Joe and Jerry inadvertently witness an organized crime mass murder. Forced to hide out from mobsters trying to kill them, they dress in drag and join Sweet Sue's all-girl band. Billy Wilder's gender-bending comedy masterpiece sparkles with witty dialogue, wonderful ensemble performances, and nonstop laughs.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/20/2018
UPC:	0715515223119
Original Release:	1959
Rating:	NR
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	2:01:00
Sales rank:	8,227

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration, with umcompressed monaural soundtrack; Audio Commentary from 1989 featuring film scholar Howard Suber; New short program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film, featuring Costume Designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Costume Historian and archivist Larry McQueen; Three behind-the-scenes documentaries; Appearances by Director Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show from 1982; Conversation from 2001; between actor Tony Curtis and film critic Leonard Maltin; French television interview from 1988 with actor Jack Lemmon; Radio interview from 1955 with actor Marilyn Monroe; Trailer; Plus: An essay by author Sam Wasson

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Marilyn Monroe	Sugar Kane
Tony Curtis	Joe/Josephine
Jack Lemmon	Jerry/Daphne
George Raft	Spats Columbo
Joe E. Brown	Osgood E. Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff	Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee	Sweet Sue
Billy Gray	Sig Poliakoff,Mobster at Banquet
George E. Stone	Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry	Beinstock
Mike Mazurki	Spats' Henchman
Harry Wilson	Spats' Henchman
Beverly Wills	Dolores
Barbara Drew	Nellie
Edward G. Robinson Jr.	Johnny Paradise
Tom Kennedy	Bouncer
John Indrisano	Waiter
Adolph Deutsch	Composer
Alex Ball	le patron de bar clandestin
Brandon Beach	un invit?
Phil Bloom	un gangster,un gangster
Al Breneman	Bellhop
Steve Carruthers	un invit?
James J. Casino	un gangster
Kid Chissell	l'officier de police
Marian Collier	Olga
Edward G. Robinson	Johnny Paradise
Sam Bagley	Extra
Ted Christy	Small Role
Pat Comiskey	Spats' Henchman
James Dime	Gangster Convention Greeter
Joan Fields	Band Member
Duke Fishman	Gangster at Convention
Pat O'Brien	Mulligan
Mary Foley	Band Member
Paul Frees	Funeral Director/Josephine
Harold Tommy Hart	Official #2
Ted Hook	Official #1
Tipp McClure	Spats' Henchman/Driver
Penny McGuiggan	Band Member
Laurie Mitchell	Mary Lou - Trumpet Player
Colleen O'Sullivan	Band Member
Helen Perry	Rosella
Danny Richards Jr.	Fresh Bellboy
Fred Sherman	Drunk
Bert Stevens	Speakeasy Patron
Arthur Tovey	Speakeasy Patron
Tito Vuolo	Mozzarella
Sandra Warner	Emily - Band Member
Grace Lee Whitney	Band Member

Technical Credits

Billy Wilder

I.A.L. Diamond

Robert Thoeren

Doane Harrison

Michael Logan

Billy Wilder	Screenwriter,Producer
I.A.L. Diamond	Screenwriter,Producer
Robert Thoeren	Screenwriter
Doane Harrison	Producer,Screenwriter
Fred Lau	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Michael Logan	Screenwriter
Milt Rice	Special Effects
Paul Baxley	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Billy Wilder's legendary cross-dressing comedy, Some Like It Hot, satisfies on split levels: silly and sophisticated, sweet and salacious, feminine and masculine -- often, all of these at once. Set in 1929, the film costars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a pair of down-and-out Chicago musicians trying to escape the wrath of vicious gangsters. Posing as women, they sign on for an all-girl gig in Florida, where they both fall for the act's sexy lounge singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe). Lemmon's classic observation about Monroe, that she moves "like Jell-O on springs," is just the tip of the iceberg here. Some Like It Hot's snappy, sexually charged dialogue never lets up. But the movie’s more than just talk: Wilder displays storytelling virtuosity, unfolding his madcap tale at a giddy pace through a series of endless twists and turns. Yet, through it all, the characters and situations are realized with a clarity on the order of a Shakespearean comedy. Some deliberate male-female stereotyping early on yields quickly to subtle, urbane explorations of sexuality and sexual roles. Lemmon and Curtis prove to be perfect matches for this material, sliding in and out of drag and female personae with ease, with Curtis indulging in a sly Cary Grant caricature to boot. Monroe, meanwhile, is at her most vulnerable and voluptuous, serving as the explosive catalyst in one of the screen's greatest love triangles. Add to this Monroe's breathy renditions of "I'm Through with Love" and "I Wanna be Loved by You," and it's easy to see why Some Like It Hot is one of the most beloved comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. They don't make them better than this.