Classic Billy Wilder comedy with Marilyn Monroe

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2005)

Some Like It Hot is #14 on the American Film Institutes' Top 100 movies of all time. It's probably the best screwball comedy ever.
Tony Curtis is a saxophone player and Jack Lemmon is a bass player who accidentally witness the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago. To hide from the mob they dress as women and join an all girls' band that happens to have Marilyn Monroe as a singer. They ride on a train to a gig in Miami with all the girls and you can imagine what problems they encounter. Along the way, Tony Curtis falls for Marilyn and an old rich coot Joe E. Brown falls for Jack Lemmon who he thinks is a woman, of course.
Jack Lemmon could never top his performance here as Jerry/Daphne. His portrayal as a woman with bad lipstick, ill-fitting dresses, and treacherous high heels is hysterical.
Marilyn Monroe is an absolute knockout and this film shows her at her sexiest. She was also a great comedic actress.
Tony Curtis is excellent as straight man to Jack Lemmon.
The entire supporting cast is terrific and Billy Wilder's direction is right on. There isn't anything "wrong" about this great film. The photography is superb and the dialog is perfect.
Of course, Joe E. Brown gets the best line in the movie, the famous last line which gets my vote for the all-time best last line in any movie.