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Irma la Douce
Release Date: June 05, 1963
Year | : | 1963 |
Slogan | : | «A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.» |
Genres | : | Comedy, Romance |
Production Companies | : | Phalanx Productions, The Mirisch Company, United Artists |
Director | : | Billy Wilder |
Producers | : | Lynn Stalmaster, Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, Doane Harrison, Alexandre Trauner, Edward L. Alperson |
Writers | : | Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, Alexandre Breffort |
RunTime | : | 147 mins. |
Budget | : | 5000000 |
Revenue | : | 25200000 |
Nester Patou, a naive police officer, is transferred to the red light district in Paris and organizes a raid on a dodgy hotel running as a brothel. In doing so he inadvertently disrupts the corrupt system of the police and the pimps union, and even nets his station superior. Fired from his job, Nester goes to the local bar for a drink and befriends a pretty young lady named Irma la Douce. Upon realizing she is a prostitute, Nester invents a crazy scheme to keep her from seeing other men.
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