Irma la Douce
(1963)
Overview
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 - inadvertently disrupting the corrupt system of the police and the pimps union, and netting 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.
Tagline
A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.
Crew
| Director: | Billy Wilder |
| Writers: | Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, Alexandre Breffort |
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Jack Lemmon 
Shirley MacLaine 
Lou Jacobi 
Cliff Osmond |
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Production Companies
The Mirisch Corporation, Phalanx Productions
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