Nobody's perfect but picture is comic perfection

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2020)

SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959
by Billy Wilder (USA, 1959, 121', B/W)
Set a bench standard for ensemble comedy acting that has never been equaled. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe all at the top of their game against prohibition era gangster setting. Curtis and Lemmon on the run after accidentally witnessing a gangland massacre have to dress up as females to hide from the mob and Monroe joins them. Ends with famous Joe E. Brown line, "well, nobody's perfect" but this movie is just about the perfect comedy from stem to stern.
Curtis once quipped that kissing Monroe in this picture was like kissing Hitler, but if so -- well, make mine Hitler.
Restoration: Park Circus in collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer and The Criterion Collection