Some Like It Hot: Classic, Dud or Something Inbetween?

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Magical, but definitely not Wilder's best (I'd say Ace in the Hole or The Apartment), or even funniest (for my money, Foreign Affair, Stalag 17 and Sabrina have more, better, gags).

Lemmon and Curtis are definitely his best leading pair, though (with Ed G Robinson and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity a close second).

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 21 March 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

you gotta see that interview.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 March 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

Have you dudes seen The Fortune Cookie? Wilder/Lemmon/MATTHAU pretty damn funny.
If Martin hadn't already metioned SLIH's exquisite kicker of a final line, I would here.

huck, Monday, 22 March 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago) link

Ace in the Hole is the BLEAKEST movie I've ever seen. Not to say I didn't love it, I did. It was just really BLEAK, there isn't a likable character in the movie, not even the freaking guy trapped under the rocks is really that likeable.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 March 2004 06:14 (twenty years ago) link

A few years ago, there was a musical made about the Floyd Collins incident (appropriately titled Floyd Collins) that was the basis of Ace in the Hole. It's incredible.

Prude (Prude), Monday, 22 March 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

eight years pass...

roolz over Tootsie

bet Sotosyn is annoyed by the great Joe E Brown

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

nobody's perfect

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 1 April 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

this is on pbs right now.

tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:17 (ten years ago) link

i don't understand the plot yet. why are there only women on this train? because they are a band? did jack lemmon and tony curtis dress up as women just so they could sneak on the train and perv on the women?

tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:24 (ten years ago) link

iirc they're jazz musicians who witnessed the st. valentine's day massacre, then disguised themselves as women and joined up with a touring band to try to avoid mob reprisal: comedy ensues

one way street, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link

that makes more sense. marilyn monroe just said she joined this band to get away from male saxophone players. she gets into relationships with them and then they rob her; this has happened six times in the past two years.

tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:34 (ten years ago) link

this guy who is like sixtyish years old just said that his mom made him divorce his last wife because she smoked. this movie is nuts.

tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:37 (ten years ago) link

I want to hear Treeship's final verdict.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 26 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link

This was the first film I got on DVD.

channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Sunday, 26 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link

eight years pass...

There was something in that cake that didn't agree with him.

My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves the room until I get the recipe.

Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link

[tango music stinger]

Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

Just started doing a Nehemiah Persoff Little Bonaparte imitation but my daughter, who is familiar with the movie and saw the Broadway musical on Thursday, said there was no such character in the show.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link

Wait, Grace Lee Whitney is supposedly in this?

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link

Seems so.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link

Supposedly one of the virtuosos in the Society Syncopators.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:21 (one year ago) link

I watched this with my college friend and his parents in their apartment in Naples FL. He and I were out to each other at the time, but not to our parents. His parents loved the film and wanted to show it to us. They were delighted by it. They were nice people and I tried to laugh, but it made me cringe and I was so embarrassed. I still can’t stand the film

Dan S, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link

Hmm. The Grace Lee Whitney thing is mentioned several places but nothing totally convincing.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link

I watched this with my college friend and his parents in their apartment in Naples FL. He and I were out to each other at the time, but not to our parents. His parents loved the film and wanted to show it to us. They were delighted by it. They were nice people and I tried to laugh, but it made me cringe and I was so embarrassed. I still can’t stand the film

― Dan S

I love Jack Lemmon, especially when he holds maracas. Both actors are so willing to go even more queer than the script allows.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link

Picture sort of looks like her but…

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link


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