This year Marilyn Monroe would have been 100, what better way celebrate by enjoying Billy Wilder‘s classic comedy Some Like It Hot. This month you can enjoy that film for the first time on 4K UHD with a the release a 3-disc Limited Collector’s Edition Mediabook.
This parody of gangster films and melodramas is one of Billy Wilder‘s best-known and most popular works, and is also Marilyn Monroe‘s most successful film. In 2000, the American Film Institute named the film the funniest American film of all time.
Starring along side Monroe are Tony Curtis (Spartacus) and Jack Lemmon (The Apartment). Some Like It Hot sees 2 men running from gangsters after witnessing a crime. They both meet Meet Sugar Kane and disguise themselves as women in her all female band.
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Synopsis | In Some Like It Hot, two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Fearing the gangster Spats Colombo, the two flee. On their journey to another state, they meet Sugar Kane Kowalczyk and her all-female band and spontaneously join the group – with new identities. Disguised as women, they now perform as Josephine and Daphne. But it doesn’t take long for the next trouble to arise…
3-Disc Limited Collector’s Edition in a Mediabook including a UHD-Blu-ray, Blu-ray, Bonus-Blu-ray and a 24-page Booklet!
Bonus: Commentary featuring an interview with actor Tony Curtis, archived 1984 interview with actor Jack Lemmon and additional commentary by Paul Diamond (Son of screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond) and screenwriters Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
Theatrical Trailer
Bonus-Blu-ray: The Making of Some Like It Hot, The Legacy of Some Like It Hot, “Nostalgic Look Back” Documentary
“Memories from the Sweet Sues” Featurette
Virtual Hall of Memories
“What Makes It Funny?” – Interview with Tony Curtis on Some Like It Hot
This 3-disc box set also features English and German Subtitles.
Some Like it Hot will be releasing on Limited Collector’s Edition 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from 18th May. You can pre-order or buy Amazon.
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