Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce is a 1963 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder.

Irma la Douce Irma the Sweet tells the story of Nestor Patou Jack Lemmon, an honest cop, who after being transferred from the park Bois de Boulogne to a more urban neighborhood in Paris, finds a street full of prostitutes working at the Hotel Casanova and proceeds to raid the place. The police inspector, who is Nestors superior, and the other policemen, have been aware of the prostitution, but tolerate it in exchange for bribes. The inspector, a client of the prostitutes himself, fires Nestor, who is accidentally framed for bribery.Kicked off the force and humiliated, Nestor finds himself drawn to the very neighborhood that ended his career with the Paris police returning to Chez Moustache, a popular hangout tavern for prostitutes and their pimps. Down on his luck, Nestor befriends Irma La Douce Shirley MacLaine, a popular prostitute. He also reluctantly accepts, as a confidant, the proprietor of Chez Moustache, a man known only as Moustache. In a running joke, Moustache Lou Jacobi, a seemingly ordinary barkeeper, tells of a storied prior life claiming to have been, among other things, an attorney, a colonel, and a doctor, ending with the repeated line, But thats another story. After Nestor defends Irma against her abusive pimp boyfriend, Hippolyte, Nestor moves in with her, and he soon finds himself as Irmas new pimp. ........

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