Still hot after all these years

Rating: 9/10 (10 August 2017)

This movie has not aged; it's still wonderful, full of laughs and surprises. The violence is handled well, almost as slapstick, and Marilyn thoroughly deserved her Best Actor award. The friendship and tension between Curtis and Lemmon helps carry the story, as does Joe E Brown as the fourth corner in this love triangle, but the real star is writer Billy Wilder. The dialog is perfect, probably the result of endless rewrites. Osgood gets the final line, "Well - nobody's perfect" but the script continues, hinting at a sequel: "But that's another story - and we're not quite sure the public is ready for it."