SOME LIKE IT HOT

Year: 1959
UK: BFI
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown, Nehemiah Persoff, Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, George E Stone, Dave Barry, Mike Mazurki, Harry Wilson, Beverly Wills, Barbara Drew, Edward G Robinson Jr, Marian Collier, Helen Perry
Director: Billy Wilder
Country: USA
UK: 121 mins
UK Certificate: U with very mild sex references and violence
UK Release Date: 20 October 2000 (Limited Re-release)

Synopsis

Two musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are trying to escape vengeful gangsters after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre (Chicago,1929). They find refuge in an all girl jazz band dressed up as women! Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) is star of the all-girls band and the film follows the comic, amorous adventures of Josephine (Curtis) and Daphne (Lemmon) eluding mobster Spats Colombo (George Raft). Shot in black and white.