Irma la Douce

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

Irma la Douce (1963)

Timing: 2:27 (147 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1963-06-05

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, The Mirisch Company, Phalanx Productions

Genre

Comedy, Romance

Budget

$5 000 000

Revenue

$25 200 000

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Director

Billy Wilder

Actors

Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, Paul Dubov, Howard McNear
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Scenario

Producer

Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, Doane Harrison, Alexandre Trauner, Edward L. Alperson

Operator

Joseph LaShelle

Composer

André Previn

Artist

Audition

Lynn Stalmaster

Editing

Daniel Mandell
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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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