Irma La Douce DVD

Irma La Douce
This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) is Paris' most prosperous prostitute. Wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in green, Irma rules the rue Casanova. She triumphantly works the most coveted corner on a street where the cops gladly look the other way and the naughty johns leave tips. Her street is a content community of live and let live and good-natured desire, an Augean stable of human understanding. However, to upright Nester Patou (Jack Lemmon), the area's new policeman, genial wrongdoing is still wrongdoing. Freshly promoted from day patrol at a children's playground, the scrupulous Nestor arrests Irma and her colleagues in a bumbling, unauthorized raid. He takes pity on Irma, but harasses the guilty johns -- including the police captain. Promptly unemployed, Nester returns to the scene of his crime, the rue, and to Irma. After physically besting her pimp, Nester unwittingly takes his position. The two fall madly in love, but Nestor quickly grows jealous of Irma's patrons. Thus, he masquerades as a wealthy English aristocrat and becomes Irma's sole customer -- only to eventually grow violently jealous of himself. Soon enough, this formally righteous cop is comically jailed for his own brutal murder! As the film's prologue promises, Irma La Douce is a celebration of life from beginning to end -- unabashedly adoring lust, emotion, fervor and, above all, foolish love. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide

Cast Jack Lemmon as Nestor Patou/Lord X Shirley MacLaine as Irma La Douce Lou Jacobi as Moustache Bruce Yarnell as Hippolyte Herschel Bernardi as Inspector Lefevre Hope Holiday as Lolita Joan Shawlee as Amazon Annie Grace Lee Whitney as Kiki the Cossack Paul Dubov as Andre Howard McNear as Concierge Cliff Osmond as Police Sergeant Diki Lerner as Jojo Herb Jones as Casablanca Charlie Tura Satana as Suzette Wong Lou Krugman as First Customer James Brown as Texan Customer Bill Bixby as Tattooed Sailor Harriet Young as Mimi the Mau Mau Sheryl Deauville as Carmen Billy Beck as Officer Dupont Edgar Barrier as General Lafayette Richard Peel as Englishman Joe Palma as Prison Guard

Crew Alexandre Trauner - Art Director I.A.L. Diamond - Associate Producer Doane Harrison - Associate Producer Wally Green - Choreography Orry-Kelly - Costume Designer Hal W. Polaire - First Assistant Director Billy Wilder - Director Dan Mandell - Editor Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score) Emile LaVigne - Makeup Harry Ray - Makeup Frank Westmore - Makeup Joseph La Shelle - Cinematographer Billy Wilder - Producer Maurice Barnathan - Set Designer Edward Boyle - Set Designer Milt Rice - Special Effects I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter Billy Wilder - Screenwriter Irene Caine - Costumes Supervisor Alexandre Breffort - Play Author

Irma La Douce
(not reviewed)
 

Andre Previn: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Adapted Score (winner) Jack Lemmon: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com (nominated) Joseph La Shelle: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Color Cinematography (nominated) Shirley MacLaine: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actress (nominated) Shirley MacLaine: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (winner)

Golden Globe, Best Picture - Musical or Comedy (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: Spanish, French Sound Processing: 1: PCM mono Additional Features: Original theatrical trailer English: mono French: mono Spanish: mono French & Spanish language subtitles DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 143 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 0. Scene Selections 1. Main Title/Sad Story [6:09] 2. Girls In The Hood [14:35] 3. Panty Raid [8:00] 4. Shut Up And Fight [10:20] 5. The Apartment Part Deux [7:32] 6. Entry-Level Position [9:01] 7. Jealous and X-Centric [15:55] 8. "Free Champagne!" [7:11] 9. The Meat Market [8:44] 10. A Double Life [9:03] 11. Men Are Pigs [6:52] 12. Beyond Therapy [7:37] 13. All Washed Up [:28] 14. "Crime Of Passion" [5:33] 15. Manhunt [10:29] 16. Member Of The Wedding [9:40]