Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black and white romantic comedy film set in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, and Nehemiah Persoff. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the French film "Fanfare of Love". The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed commit a crime
The Underground Comedy Movie excess of 100,000 copies. According to IMDb, "The Underground Comedy Movie" played on one movie theater screen on May 16, 1999, earning $856. The film earned less-than-favorable reviews, receiving a 33% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews. The "New York Post" said it "may be the least amusing comedy ever made." Lawrence Van Gelder of "The New York Times" offered a scathing review, describing the movie as "a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality, and mockery of the unfortunate." Van Gelder added that tasteless or offensive material can be funny