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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850878
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850874
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1002379D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Running Time: 143 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 05, 1963
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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 risqué 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 André Previn's adaptation of the stage play's music into a wordless orchestral score. --Robert Horton
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seen this movie when i was in the army back in the early 70"s been looking for it off & on finally found great movie
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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!
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"Irma La Douce"
"A Story of Passion, Bloodshed, Desire and Death..."
Amos Lassen
"Irma La Douce" is one of those movies that is just as much fun today as it was when it first came out (in 1963). I was in the mood for something light and funny the other day and for some reason I found myself watching Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce" and I loved it. It is described as "a story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death...everything, in fact that makes life worth living" ... Read More
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The combination of Billy Wilder, Shirley McLaine, and Jack Lemmon is unbeatable. Maclaine was indeed ' sweet,' and positively gorgeous in this movie, and Lemmon was flat-out hilarious as her ( Irma's ) lover, and 'business manager.' THE APARTMENT may have been a better movie for Wilder, and his 2 stars, but I love both films, and believe that I laughed just as hard during both.
I am so glad that they did not use Elizabeth Taylor for 'Irma,' as the studio originally intended to. MacLaine projected ... Read More
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Yet another Billy Wilder smash hit, `Irma La Douce' pits the wonderfully charming Shirley MacLaine against the hilariously witty Jack Lemmon in a comedy that is every bit as smart as it is unforgettable. This is one of those comedies that sneaks up on you, getting better and better as the film progresses onward to its end, and then the ending is one that takes you for a loop and makes you reevaluate your whole understanding of the film.
It's just wonderfully constructed from beginning to end.
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