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Some Like It Hot
1959 · Film · 123 min
Directed by Billy Wilder
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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Cinemas around here have started showing old films and I have rediscovered the joy of going to the movies, whether it's Some Like It Hot or Suicide Club.
I don't think that cross-dressing for laughs was controversial unless the UK in the 70s was way more conservative than Germany or the US in the 60s.
I immediately remembered several movies with Peter Alexander from the early 60s like "Charlys Tante" or Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot".
Although in the latter there are several scenes going beyond "men in women's clothes are funny" and homosexual acts are evoked in the viewer's minds (but of course never actually called on screen).
There is also a...non-recency bias in other rankings like AFI, where movies from the 50s and 60s are way overrepresented in the standings. Was "some like it hot" really the funniest movie of all time?
Well the Congressional Cinema Club could put on some special showings and ask for sponsorship
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Who, in turn, starred in the movie "Some Like it Hot."