Some Like It Hot

1959 · directed by Billy Wilder

Rating

99/100

Hit

yes

Prestige lists

AFI 100, BFI Top 100, TSPDT 250, NFR

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.

Some Like It Hot (1959), directed by Billy Wilder, rates 99/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Tony Curtis
• Jack Lemmon
• Marilyn Monroe
• George Raft
• Pat O'Brien
• Joe E. Brown
• Nehemiah Persoff
• Joan Shawlee
• Billy Gray
• George E. Stone

Crew

• Charles Lang — Director of Photography
• Arthur P. Schmidt — Editor
• Adolph Deutsch — Original Music Composer
• Billy Wilder — Screenplay
• I. A. L. Diamond — Screenplay

More from Billy Wilder

1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) — 98/100 · hit
2. Double Indemnity (1944) — 98/100 · hit
3. The Apartment (1960) — 97/100 · hit
4. The Lost Weekend (1945) — 90/100 · hit
5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) — 85/100 · hit
6. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) — 83/100 · hit

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