Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by joining an all-female band. Inspired, on-fire director Billy Wilder builds a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians… Continue reading Some Like It Hot ***** (1959, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 97