Year: 1959
Verdict: 9/10
Directed by: Billy Wilder
With an all star cast and a brilliant director behind, this is one classic film you wouldn't want to miss.
Despite Marilyn Monroe's notorious "bad" girl image, it think her role in this film matches her alluring sex appeal and flirtatious actions.
This brings back nostalgic b&w films that we don't often see nowadays...quality films.
The story is about two musicians in Chicago, struggling to make ends meet, they have no future and were somewhat lousy bass players.
Chicago in those times were known for their Mafia history and one night, while playing at this low-key jazz bar, an encounter between the bad guys and the police brought down a fiasco that didn't end well.
They ended up in a parking lot, hiding from the police and chaos, they thought they were already safe but too late to realize that they saw an actual murder between the mafia and his men(who betrayed the boss) and shot him to death.
Caught by the bad guys, they tried to escape but thought that the only solution for them not to get caught was to join a female orchestra band, headed by a certain Mr. Beanstalk, who was hilarious. But because they are men, the only way for them to be accepted was to dressed up and pretend they were ladies.
Enter, Marilyn monroe who's the lead singer, ravishingly beautiful but has a specific taste when it comes to men, she's attracted to bad boys with lots of money.
Particularly, someone like a millionaire who owns a yacht.
From there, the story goes further as Tony curtis immediately fell for her, but can't express his love because she's a "he" and he's technically in hiding and out of work.
Meanwhile, Jack lemmon, he was also trying so hard 'not' to be attracted to all the ladies, controling his man-urge, his performance in this movies was so funny.
He was paired up with an old retired fellow, who's instantly had a crush on 'her' the moment he walked in the hotel, but the twist is that, this old fellow's a millionaire, who owns a yacht, who bought expensive gifts to jack all along thinking that Jack lemmon's a lady.
The twists and the ending of this story may seem predictable but still well-thought of and really funny without trying too hard.