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With regards to sound, there is a ‘strong musical element,’ in the film, with the soundtrack created by Adolph Deutsch. It has an authentic 1920’s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spat's gangsters appear. In terms of cinematography and aethsetics, Billy Wilder chose to shoot the film in black and white as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in full costume and make up looked ‘unnaceptably grotesque,’ in early colour tests.