A belly full of laughs, vintage entertainment!

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2009)

Well, dear fellow film lovers: If you ain't seen this one you ain't seen nuttin'! A few years ago, "Some like it hot" was rated the greatest comedy ever made and though I do not much care for -- or believe in -- such ratings the fact is that I was readily in agreement with this one and I continue to think so.
It is a film full of verve, sharp dialog, stinging one-liners, quick pace, imaginative chase sequences, and possibly the quickest-witted ending answer in the history of the cinema: Nobody's perfect! Yep, too true, nobody is perfect - but in this movie director Billy Wilder came as close to the Holy Grail of a perfectly directed movie as I can remember: Marilyn was at her most sensual and in the best acting form I ever saw from her; Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown and George Raft peerless; and the supporting cast of Nehemiah Persoff, George E. Stone, and many others was marvellous. Absolutely no weaknesses in the acting that I could detect.
Finally, a word about the outstanding photography in the "film noir" tradition yet never interferes with the smooth narrative.
What a movie! What a world that was without computers, cellphones, and all the other global technological and economic dictatorship gadgets that control our lives.