TonyCurtis &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:TonyCurtis @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:50:21 +0200 The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-list-of-adrian-messenger-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)/div div class="caption" Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm (Dana Wynter), Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), and Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux). DP: Joseph MacDonald./div div class="txt" "There's nary a conspiracy. And if I'm right about this, it's a far older sin than politics." ### – Adrian Messenger /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #DanaWynter #GeorgeCScott #KirkDouglas #JacquesRoux #TonyCurtis #KirkDouglas #BurtLancaster #RobertMitchum #FrankSinatra #JerryGoldsmith #JosephMacDonald #USA #crime #mystery #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963)

Feb

16

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm (Dana Wynter), Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), and Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux). DP: Joseph MacDonald.

“There's nary a conspiracy. And if I'm right about this, it's a far older sin than politics.”

– Adrian Messenger

#FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #DanaWynter #GeorgeCScott #KirkDouglas #JacquesRoux #TonyCurtis #KirkDouglas #BurtLancaster #RobertMitchum #FrankSinatra #JerryGoldsmith #JosephMacDonald #USA #crime #mystery #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-list-of-adrian-messenger-1963 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d0q <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" St. Valentine's Day/div div class="img" Some Like It Hot (1959)/div div class="caption" Sugar, Josephine, Daphne, and Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators rehearse Runnin’ Wild on the sleeper train to sunny Florida. DP: Charles Lang./div div class="txt" A movie about romance, of the Mafia, for St. Valentine's Day. &nbsp; Musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness a killing by the Mob at the St. Valentine's Dance where they were hired to perform. In an attempt to escape the Chicagoan gangsters, they go overcover as Josephine and Daphne ("Well, I never did like the name Geraldine.") in an all-gall jazz band, and fall head over heels for ukelele player Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe). "Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!" ### – Sugar Kane Kowalczyk The opening shootout was directly inspired by the February 14 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (graphic), and shares an actor from one of its most famous adaptations, Scarface (1932); George Raft as the wonderfully named Spats Colombo./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #StValentinesDay #BillyWilder #MarilynMonroe #TonyCurtis #JackLemmon #GeorgeRaft #PatOBrien #JoeEBrown #JoanShawlee #EdwardGRobinsonJr #AdolphDeutsch #CharlesLang #crime #comedy #LGBT #crossdressing #romance #Mafia #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

Feb

14

St. Valentine's Day

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sugar, Josephine, Daphne, and Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators rehearse Runnin’ Wild on the sleeper train to sunny Florida. DP: Charles Lang.

A movie about romance, of the Mafia, for St. Valentine's Day.

 

Musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness a killing by the Mob at the St. Valentine's Dance where they were hired to perform. In an attempt to escape the Chicagoan gangsters, they go overcover as Josephine and Daphne (“Well, I never did like the name Geraldine.”) in an all-gall jazz band, and fall head over heels for ukelele player Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe).

“Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!”

– Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

The opening shootout was directly inspired by the February 14 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (graphic), and shares an actor from one of its most famous adaptations, Scarface (1932); George Raft as the wonderfully named Spats Colombo.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #StValentinesDay #BillyWilder #MarilynMonroe #TonyCurtis #JackLemmon #GeorgeRaft #PatOBrien #JoeEBrown #JoanShawlee #EdwardGRobinsonJr #AdolphDeutsch #CharlesLang #crime #comedy #LGBT #crossdressing #romance #Mafia #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d0q Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sweet-smell-of-success-1957 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)/div div class="month" April 20/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" oysters/div div class="img" Sweet Smell of Success (1957)/div div class="caption" J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) pulling Sidney Falco's (Tony Curtis) tie over cocktails and oysters. DP: James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." ### – J.J. Hunsecker /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #oysters #AlexanderMackendrick #ErnestLehman #BurtLancaster #TonyCurtis #SusanHarrison #ChicoHamilton #FredKatz #ElmerBernstein #JamesWongHowe #BookAdaptation #drama #jazz #FilmNoir #romance #NewYork #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)

April 20

20

oysters

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) pulling Sidney Falco's (Tony Curtis) tie over cocktails and oysters. DP: James Wong Howe.

“I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.”

– J.J. Hunsecker

#FilmDinner #oysters #AlexanderMackendrick #ErnestLehman #BurtLancaster #TonyCurtis #SusanHarrison #ChicoHamilton #FredKatz #ElmerBernstein #JamesWongHowe #BookAdaptation #drama #jazz #FilmNoir #romance #NewYork #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

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