The Script - Witty, The Characters - Freshly Comical

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2005)

SOME LIKE IT HOT ***** Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' is a hilarious story of two Chicago musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who turn to female foreigners as they flee to Miami with an all-girl's band to escape from a mob hit chain leader (George Raft) whom they witnessed doing one of his deeds. Excellent entertainment ensues as Curtis and Lemmon become more involved and perplexed in the humorous and romantic entanglements they're placed in. Marilyn Munroe is delectably delightful as the band singer who draws Curtis in with her sensuous and semi-flamboyant charm. Joe E. Brown plays millionaire Osgood Fielding who takes a liking to the bewildered Lemmon. The script is witty, the characters are freshly comical, and Wilder contributes a commendable directorial to one of cinema's classic comedies.