This Is As Hot As ......We Need It......(Brilliant)

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2013)

The great Billy Wilder directs, writes, and has a say in the screenplay of one of the really great comedies. Some Like It Hot is up there in the best five comedies...ever made. Marilyn Munroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are superb as the three leads in this risqué 1959 steam-roller. Wilder did everything to get up the noses of the censors, and was clever enough to get away with all of it. In 1959 men dressing and behaving like ladies...wearing ladies clothes...was dangerous ground to tread on. And the many sub-plots that this brought about were also "no go" areas. He succeeded just like the T.V. Classic Seinfeld...when they declared "not that there's anything wrong with that" when they did there great "sexual preference" episode. In the case of Some Like It Hot...we need to remember...this was 1959. Munroe was always difficult to work with...continually turning up late, and being obviously neurotic. In a famous B.B.C. talk show in the 1970s Curtis described Munroe as a "fruit cake". I am sure that was true, but she was wonderful in Some Like It Hot. The movie is a classic.