Irma La Douce
by Billy Wilder
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Actor: Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi, Shirley MacLaineDirector: Billy Wilder
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Irma La Douce
Movie Review: Hilarious!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed out loud at this screwball comedy. Believable - hell no. Funny - hell yes. That's what comedies are supposed to be - laugh out loud hilarious!
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are just wonderful, as well as the other major actors. Even the little dog played his part well.
If you want to watch a genuine comedy - one that is witty, romantic and heartwarming, this is your movie.
Cheery - oh, Chappie!
Summary of Irma La Douce
In 1963, Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce was one of the biggest box-office hits of the year, grossing twice as much as The Great Escape and The Birds. Yet this popular movie has been almost completely forgotten by film history, even to fans of Wilder or stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (the same trio had made a masterpiece, The Apartment, three years earlier). It doesn't represent the best work of those legends, but Irma provides tart entertainment. At least some of the movie's popularity can be chalked up to its subject, which was pretty risqu? for the time: Lemmon plays a Paris policeman who falls in love with a prostitute (MacLaine). The script was adapted from a stage musical, but Wilder decided to cut the songs, instead developing the humor and romance into his own blend of bittersweet perversity; this Technicolor-fantasy Paris is kind of a dark cousin to Gigi. Lemmon is in his prime period of hand-wringing self-doubt, and MacLaine is perfectly in tune with his rhythms, especially in scenes that add tenderness to the sometimes queasy mix of moods. Ironically--given the nixing of the songs--the film won its only Oscar for Andr? Previn's adaptation of the stage play's music into a wordless orchestral score. --Robert HortonComedy DVD Video
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