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Some like it hot / Ashton Productions Inc. presents a Mirisch Company picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond ; produced and directed by Billy Wilder.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 583 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 950.
- Criterion collection ; 950
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female impersonators--Drama.
- Female impersonators.
- Musicians--Drama.
- Musicians.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Comedy films.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital optical monaural Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
- Participant:
- Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr.; music, Adolph Deutsch; editor, Arthur P. Schmidt.
- Notes:
- Suggested by a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1959.
- Wide screen (1.85:1).
- Special features: audio commentary by Howard Suber; new program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film; three making-of documentaries; appearance from 1982 by Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show; conversation from 2001 between Tony Curtis and Leonard Maltin; French television interview from 1988 with Jack Lemmon; Radio interview from 1955 with Marilyn Monroe; trailer; essay by Sam Wasson (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681435213
- 1681435217
- OCLC:
- 1055210795
- Publisher Number:
- 715515223218
- CC2964DDVD The Criterion Collection
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