Some Like It Hot

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
7:00 PM

Presented by the Sid Williams Theatre Society

A BICKLE THEATRE ORIGINAL

We are taking part in the City of Courtenay’s centennial festivities by celebrating the history of our building and its beginnings as a cinema when it opened as the Bickle Theatre back in 1935.

Join us for a night of classic film featuring prizes and popcorn! And of course, costumes are encouraged.

 

Maybe “nobody’s perfect,” as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them.

In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles “I’m Through with Love” but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant – a spot-on impersonation.

The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry’s feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as director Billy Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of “Park Avenue Fantasy.” Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it’s hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behavior. The results, however, are sublime. – Amazon.ca (Robert Horton)