Poster by | Macario Gómez Quibus |
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Directed by | Billy Wilder |
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Based on | Fanfare of Love 1935 film by Max Bronnet Michael Logan Pierre Prévert René Pujol Robert Thoeren |
Produced by | Billy Wilder |
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Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
Production company | Mirisch Company |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.9 million |
Box office | $49 million |
(This information is from wikipedia.org.) |
One would think people generally didn’t do this sort of thing— dressing up as women to escape being silenced by the mob— so nobody suspects a thing.
Spats Colombo and his henchmen murder Toothpick Charlie and his gang, and bullets fly when Little Bonaparte has Spats and his gang gunned down with Joe and Jerry hiding under the banquet table, but this is a comedy and, essentially, the murders motivate the comedic action.
It takes two, but each might have a different view of it.