Irma la Douce

REVIEW
A lively though very broad farce from director Wilder. Lemmon stars as a Parisian policeman who falls for streetwalker MacLaine. Determined to keep her "straight," Lemmon runs a comically ragged course as he doubles as both suitor and, by impersonating British royalty (shades of The Lady Eve), her only customer. And then there's the tale of the real British lord, but that's another story. Based on the Broadway musical -- sans music.