SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
Part of the Sunday Silvers
| Director: | Billy Wilder |
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| Certificate: | BBFC U |
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| Format: | 35mm |
| Language: | English (US) |
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To start the new SUNDAY SILVERS season off with a bang, we bring you quite possibly the greatest Hollywood comedy ever made!Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and the late and wonderful Tony Curtis star in Billy Wilder’s film of cross-dressing, jazz, prohibition, mobsters and romance.
Plus short film, 'Keeping Time', by Ellen Phethean/Richard Lawson (part of New Writing North's, 'The Grainger Town Poetry Films', 2004)
Come dressed in drag and get in for £1 less!
Other films in the Sunday Silvers:
06
Film: All About Eve (1950)
6 Feb 2011, 7:30 p.m.
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" The second SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive backstage drama saga of ambition and betrayal. Starring BETTE DAVIS in one of her finest roles!
06
Film: A Night At The Opera (1935)
6 Mar 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Groucho, Harpo and Chico take on high society in the third of our SUNDAY SILVERS. Slapstick, good (and bad) jokes, routines, musical numbers, chaos and a bit of romance make this one of the finest Marx Brothers films out there.
03
Film: Jezebel (1938)
3 Apr 2011, 7 p.m.
A tale of defiance, love and redemption sees another SUNDAY SILVER! A headstrong Southern Belle forces away her love through her pride, vanity and sedition - all in a red dress - but vows to get him back. The amazing Bette Davis and Henry Fonda star in this 1850's Southern-set romantic melodrama. Why not come dressed in RED for tonight's screening?! MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL OFFER… Bring your mother and she gets in at the concession price of £3.50!
01
Film: Mildred Pierce (1945)
1 May 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Joan Crawford stars as the ultimate self-sacrificing mother in May's SUNDAY SILVERS. Based on James M. Cain's maternal hard-boiled novel, Mildred Pierce is a film noir with a difference. Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
05
Film: High Society (1956)
5 Jun 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and his band all star in this Technicolor Cole Porter musical for another classic SUNDAY SILVERS! A well-to-do lady is set to marry into stability and potential boredom, but her free-loving, jazz musician ex-husband is set to win her back - although the dashing reporter has something to say about that! Well, what's a gal to do?
03
Film: The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
3 Jul 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Ah, Lubitsch! Subtle, sharp, sad, romantic and funny - a film fit for the SUNDAY SILVERS! Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan star in this tale of despise for those you know and love for those you don't - whoever they might be…
04
Film: King Kong (1933)
4 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive sci-fi, fantasy, special effects movie. A film crew go to a mysterious, tropical island to finish a shoot, but what they find there was bigger than they ever imagined… Adventure to make you wonder if it's TRUE, while your very eyes convince you that it IS!
02
Film: The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
2 Oct 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Doe-eyed Bob Mitchum turns nasty in a classic film-noir that showcases the sinister side of our Sunday Silvers. Watch, as our anti-hero's tattooed knuckles take hold of an unsuspecting family whose widowed matriarch is initially hoodwinked by his preacher-man act. Behold, the charming charlatan's pursuit of the widow's fortune.
06
Film: Gun Crazy (1949)
6 Nov 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Bart's got a thing for guns and when he meets Laurie, a carnival gun-slinging, trick-shot beauty, he falls in love. But a married life without luxury isn't Laurie's idea of happily-ever-after and they put their skills to thrilling use… Perhaps technically a B-Movie, this film deserves to be a SUNDAY SILVER!
04
Film: Singin' In The Rain (1952)
4 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The ultimate Hollywood Hollywood movie ends this year's SUNDAY SILVERS! Movies, stars, movie-stars, songs, dance, Technicolor, comedy and romance in one of MGM's finest musicals.