Mafia Comedies - Some Like It Hot, Prizzi's Honor, Oscar, Gigli, Mobsters and Mormons, Married to the Mob, the Whole Nine Yards, Analyze That (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Some Like It Hot, Prizzi's Honor, Oscar, Gigli, Mobsters and Mormons, Married to the Mob, The Whole Nine Yards, Analyze That, Johnny Dangerously, Analyze This, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, Corky Romano, Get Shorty, The Freshman, The Whole Ten Yards, Connie and Carla, Wise Guys, Find Me Guilty, My Blue Heaven, Mafia , Mickey Blue Eyes, Bullets Over Broadway, Innocent Blood, Avenging Angelo, Friends & Family, The Pope Must Die, In the Mix, Cookie, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, The Umbrella Coup, You Kill Me, Randy and The Mob, Chow Bella, Who Do I Gotta Kill?, Underworld, Kiss Toledo Goodbye, Mafia comedy, The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse. Excerpt: Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft. The supporting cast includes Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film is a remake by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond of a 1935 French movie, Fanfare d'Amour, from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan, which was itself remade in 1951 by German director Kurt Hoffmann as Fanfaren der Liebe. Both the French and German films were without the gangsters that are integral to the plot of Some Like It Hot . Wilder's working title for his film was Fanfares of Love, then Not Tonight, Josephine before he decided on Some Like It Hot as its release title. During 1981, after the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles, United Artists re-released Some Like It Hot to theatres. In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time. Two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), witness what looks like the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. When the Chicago gangsters, led by 'Spats' Co...