Irma la Douce

A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.

Sinopse

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.

7.4
1963
Released
2h 27m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$5,000,000.00

Revenue

$25,200,000.00

Keywords

#prostitute
#paris, france
#love of one's life
#police
#pimp
#red-light district

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967almost 2 years ago

I love the first half hour of this film. It's all about the fastidious policeman "Patou" (Jack Lemmon) who is unwittingly transferred into a Parisian red light district where he encounters the eponymous hooker (Shirley MacLaine) plying her trade with her little dog. He smells a rat and immediately calls for a police raid on the hotel in which she works. Bad mistake! Not least because one of his bo

@John Chardover 6 years ago

One of Wilder's most divisive film's amongst his fans. Adapted from Alexandre Breffort's stage musical, Irma la Douce in film form turns into something of a roller-coaster ride. Even allowing for the absence of the songs (a major gripe with purists), the film is far too bloated to really achieve the heights of being a great comedy classic. If it had been condensed to perhaps a 100 minute film

@John Chardover 6 years ago