Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!

"If you don't think this is one of the best comedies ever made; you haven't watched it yet or you're wrong!" noen, Letterboxd

"Einer von Wilders berühmtesten und wohl am meisten bewunderten Filmen ... Trotz der scheinbar hektischen Spontaneität ist SOME LIKE IT HOT sein am brillantesten konstruierter Film. ... Sicher seine bemerkenswerteste Leistung stellt dar, dass es ihm gelingt die Travestie als zentrale Idee durchzuhalten und da weiterzuentwickeln, wo sie in anderen Händen nur schal und geschmacklos geworden wäre." Neil Sinyard, Adrian Turner: Billy Wilders Filme (1980)

Zwei arbeitslose Musiker werden unfreiwillig Zeugen des St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Ihre Versuche, den Gangstern zu entkommen, bringen sie als Frauen verkleidet zu einer Damenkapelle, deren Ukulele-Spielerin sie zu amourösen Verrenkungen und Ränken sondergleichen inspiriert.

«Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that's about nothing but sex and yet pretends it's about crime and greed. It is underwired with Wilder's cheerful cynicism, so that no time is lost to soppiness and everyone behaves according to basic Darwinian drives. When sincere emotion strikes these characters, it blindsides them: Curtis thinks he wants only sex, Monroe thinks she wants only money, and they are as astonished as delighted to find they want only each other.» (Roger Ebert, rogerebert.com, 9/1/2000)

"Die schnellen und witzigen Dialoge verbinden sich mit einer geschickten Montage zu einer vorzüglichen Komödie. Die Komik des Films arbeitet gleichzeitig auf mehreren Ebenen und reicht vom geistvollen Witz bis zur unverhüllten Farce. Zahlreiche Gags ergeben sich aus den beständigen Zitaten aus früheren Gangsterfilmen ... Die Darstellungen aller Protagonisten, Wilders fehlerlose rhythmische Kontrolle und das humorvoll-nostalgische Drehbuch I.A.L. Diamonds sind die Stützen dieser umwerfenden Farce." Buchers Enzyklopädie des Films

"The term 'greatest comedy of all time' gets thrown around a lot, and the laurels of this statement frequently fall on the shoulders of SOME LIKE IT HOT. That's quite a weight to bear, and when you think about what tickles your funny bone you don't immediately think of the stylings of a film from 1959. If you haven't already taken the plunge to sit down with this Billy Wilder classic, I promise that you will not be disappointed.
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe were never been better than in this tale of two struggling musicians who witness a mob hit and are forced to hit the road with an all-female traveling band in the midst of Prohibition. It's Curtis/Lemmon in drag followed by non-stop situational humor: Monroe as a boozy floozy! Lemmon being wooed by a male millionaire! Men dressed as women sneaking in hooch on a train full of women and musical instruments!" Greg MacLennan, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema