Amazon.co.uk: Irma La Douce [1963]: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, Paul Dubov, Howard McNear, Cliff Osmond, Diki Lerner, Herb Jones, Ruth Earl, Jane Earl, Billy Wilder: Video

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Irma La Douce [1963]
VHS ~ Jack Lemmon

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Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi
Directors: Billy Wilder
Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Language English
Classification:
Studio: MGM Entertainment
VHS Release Date: 8 Jan 2001
Run Time: 137 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(2 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000055ZPG
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,156 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
Popular in these categories:
#8 in Video > Classic Films > Directors > Wilder, Billy
#10 in Video > Classic Films > Directors > Whale, James
#52 in Video > Comedy > Romantic

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 film 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 La Douce provides tart entertainment. At least some of the film'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 humour 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, Amazon.com

Synopsis
A prostitute called Irma falls in love with an English lord who is not all he appears to be. The lord is really Irma's business manager who wants to keep her all to himself.... Contains the original theatrical trailer.

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