IRMA La DEUCE : The Pretty Girls in Old Paris !!

Video Source: Amazon Prime

Jack Lemon, the cop, gets fired - that is how the story begins. He is as innocent and as honest as me, you see. He does not know why the girls are standing on the sides of streets and so he walks into a neighborhood restaurant where he finally discovers that these girls are in the business of prostitution and the clients in that restaurant are their pimps. Our hero then decides to save the heroine (Shirley Mclaine looking quite pretty and quite slim). He will be her lover and take care of her. But how ? He dawns the makeup and accent of a British nobleman and visits her often to make her rich and keep her away from other clients. This scheme is concocted by the restaurant owner with whom he has developed a friendship and from whom he initially borrows $500 as seed money. 

But what happens when he cannot afford to pay her anymore as the British nobleman without working long hours in the neighborhood butcher factory ? He decides to kill the identity of that British nobleman but can he ? This is a great comedy by the famous Billy Wilder (with a story similar to a Chaplin movie but a little more sophisticated ) with a ton of laughs. Jack L. and Shirley M. make a great team !!