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2 videodiscs (121 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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Criterion collection #950
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Title from title frame
Grandma's funeral -- A bass and a sax -- Josephine and Daphne -- Slumber party -- Feminine intuition -- Shell oil -- "I wanna be loved by you" -- "I'm harmless" -- A proposal -- Cast off -- "Friends of the Italian opera" -- "I'm through with love" -- Color bars
Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Suggested by a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan
Special features: Audio commentary by Howard Suber (recorded in 1989); new program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film; three making-of documentaries; appearance from 1982 by Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show; conversation from 2001 between Tony Curtis and Leonard Maltin; French television interview from 1988 with Jack Lemmon; Radio interview from 1955 with Marilyn Monroe; trailer; in insert, essay by Sam Wasson
Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr. ; music, Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Ted Haworth ; editor, Arthur P. Schmidt
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff, Joan Shawlee
Rating: Not rated
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1); mono
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired