Some Like It Hot Page #3

Synopsis: After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band's sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Production: United Artists
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
97
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
NOT RATED
Year:
1959
121 min
Website
1,413 Views


His heavyweight build, bashed-in nose and cauliflower ears

don't quite jibe with his mourning coat, striped pants, ascot

and carnation. Dusting one of the marble angels is another

funeral director, in the same somber uniform.

Mulligan enters.

MOZARELLA:

(with grave sympathy)

Good evening, sir.

MULLIGAN:

I come to the old lady's funeral.

MOZARELLA:

(looking him over)

I don't believe I've seen you at any

of our services before.

MULLIGAN:

That's because I've been on the wagon.

MOZARELLA:

PLEASE!

MULLIGAN:

(looking around)

Where are they holding the wake? I'm

supposed to be one of the pallbearers.

MOZARELLA:

(to funeral director)

Show the gentleman to the chapel --

pew number three.

FUNERAL DIRECTOR

This way, sir.

He leads Mulligan past the organ toward the black-paneled

wall, where there is no evidence of a door.

The organist, without missing a note in his playing, reaches

over to the end of the keyboard and pulls out a stop. One of

the panels slides open, and there is a blast of MUSIC from

the chapel. It's jazz -- and it's SWEET GEORGIA BROWN.

Mulligan rears back momentarily, then follows the funeral

director in. The organist pushes the stop in again, and the

panel slides shut.

INT. SPEAKEASY - NIGHT

Grandma must have been quite a person, because she left a

lot of condoling friends behind, and they are holding a very

lively wake. The chapel is jumping. A small band is blaring

out SWEET GEORGIA BROWN. The musicians are not the slick,

well-fed instrumentalists you would find in Guy Lombardo's

band -- they have all been through the wringer, and so have

their threadbare tuxedos. On the stamp-sized dance floor,

six girls in abbreviated costumes are doing a frenetic

Charleston. Crowded around the small tables, mourners in

black arm-bands are drowning their sorrows in whatever they

drink out of their coffee cups.

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