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APARTMENT: SPECIAL EDITION
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Billy Wilder's great film of tears and laughter as Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray wheel and deal over a New York apartment in a comedy of morality, motives, and unexpected romance. MacLaine has never been more appealing. Winner of five Oscars (including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay) and worth at least 20 more. Billy Wilder---USA---1960---125 mins.
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BILLY WILDER DVD COLLECTION
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Nine films by the legendary, prolific director are included in this special edition set, including Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
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BILLY WILDER SPEAKS
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With a career that spanned more than five decades, Billy Wilder was responsible for some of the most popular and critically successful films of Hollywood's Golden Era, including Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, and Double Indemnity. This lively program uses clips, photographs, artwork, and copious interviews with the man himself to recount one of the most successful careers in Hollywood history. Filmed by Volker Schlondorff, the film features anecdotes, insights, wit, and wisdom. Volker Schlondorff---Germany/USA---2006---71 mins.
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CONNECTICUT YANKEE / EMPEROR
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A royal Bing Crosby double feature. In the elaborate musical adaptation of the Mark Twain classic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Tay Garnett, 1949, 107 mins.), Crosby wakes up after losing consciousness to find himself in sixth century England. Features the talent of William Bendix, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Rhonda Fleming. In Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz (1948, 107 mins.), Crosby plays a salesman of record players to the royalty of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Vienna is magically recreated as only Hollywood could imagine it, and there is plenty of froth to go around. Tay Garnett/Billy Wilder---USA---1949/1948---214 mins.
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY (SPEC ED)
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A great Billy Wilder film in which "every turn and twist is exactly calculated and achieves its effect with the simplest of means; this shrewd, smooth, tawdry thriller is one of the high points of 40s films" (Pauline Kael). Raymond Chandler collaborated on the screenplay in adapting James Cain's story. Barbara Stanwyck is the platinum blonde, Fred MacMurray the insurance salesman she ensnares in a plot to kill her businessman-husband and collect on the double-indemnity clause in his policy. Billy Wilder---USA---1944---107 mins.
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FORTUNE COOKIE
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When TV cameraman Jack Lemmon is knocked down at a football game, his shyster lawyer advises him to get all he can out of the fortuitous injury. Walter Matthau won an Oscar for his performance as the conniving legal counsel. With Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West and Lurene Tuttle. Biting script by A.L. Diamond and the director. Billy Wilder---USA---1966---125 mins.
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FRONT PAGE
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Billy Wilder directs Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the third screen version of the classic play about journalistic ethics in late 1920s Chicago.
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IRMA LA DOUCE
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When French policeman Jack Lemmon becomes involved with street walker Shirley MacLaine, he finds his days on the beat coming to an end. The Broadway musical set in Paris is played as a straight comedy by Billy Wilder. Cast includes Lou Jacobi, Herschel Bernardi, Joan Shawlee, Hope Holiday and Bill Bixby. Billy Wilder---USA---1963---142 mins.
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KISS ME, STUPID
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Dean Martin stars as a famous singer who is duped into spending the night in a small town while on his way from Las Vegas to Hollywood by a couple of local hopefuls who want to sell him some of their songs. With Kim Novak. Billy Wilder---USA---1964---126 mins.
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LOST WEEKEND, THE
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Billy Wilder's classic stars Ray Milland in a sobering study of alcoholism, and it charmed more Oscar voters than Spellbound and Mildred Pierce.
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LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON
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A sophisticated romantic farce from Billy Wilder, featuring Audrey Hepburn as a young cellist and Gary Cooper as an American playboy in Paris. Filled with bubbling champagne and Gypsy musicians, as well as Maurice Chevalier. "As with other Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond scripts, this one sparkles with wit and warmth" ( Raoul Hernandez, Austin Chronicle).
Billy Wilder---USA---1957---130 mins.
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MAJOR AND THE MINOR, THE
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In this lasting farce directed by Billy Wilder, Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) is broke and wants to get home, so she masquerades as a young schoolgirl on her train ride back. Hiding from the conductors, she ends up in a cabin already occupied by Major Kirby (Ray Milland), a military academy instructor. The train stalls out, and the Major demands that she accompany him to the academy since she's without parental supervision. Now, she must remain in character as she finds herself falling for the Major, who is about to marry Billy Wilder---USA---1942---101 mins.
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MAUVAISE GRAINE
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Billy Wilder made his directorial debut with this witty comedy made in France just after he had fled Hitler's Berlin and just prior to his coming to the U.S. The hero is a young dandy who turns to crime to obtain a new car when his wealthy father sells his old one. This gets him into trouble with a ring of car thieves, but then he joins their gang, falling in love with the attractive girl who works as their decoy. A risque blend of humor, jazz-era romance, and high-octane thrills, starring Pierre Mingand and Danielle Darrieux (The Young Girls of Rochefort, 8 Women). In French with English subtitles. Billy Wilder/Alexandre Esway---France---1933---76 mins.
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ONE, TWO, THREE
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James Cagney plays a Coca Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who finds himself in trouble when his boss's daughter marries a fierce young Communist. It's rowdy entertainment co-scripted and directed by Billy Wilder. Billy Wilder---USA---1961---110 mins.
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PRIVATE LIFE SHERLOCK HOLMES
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How much would we know if Sherlock Holmes' devoted sidekick, Dr. Watson, actually kept a detailed diary of his times with the most famous detective ever produced within the English literary tradition? In this humorous mystery involving German spies and the Loch Ness Monster, you'll find out. Billy Wilder---Great Britain---1970---125 mins.
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SABRINA (1954)
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Audrey Hepburn is the title character, a chauffeur's daughter who captivates the hearts of two wealthy brothers. Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her company. "...romantic, funny and astringent all at the same time...It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its head, a satire about breaking down class and emotional barriers, and a confrontation between New World callousness and Old World humanity" (Adrian Turner, Time Out). With Francis X. Bushman, Martha Hyer and John Williams. Sydney Pollack Billy Wilder---USA---1954---113 mins.
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SOME LIKE IT HOT (2DISCS)
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As Joe E. Brown says, "Nobody's perfect," but this may be the perfect American comedy of the 1950s. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians, on the run from the Chicago mob, who take to dressing in drag. Marilyn Monroe plays Sugar, the singer in an all-female band, and Joe E. Brown is the eccentric millionaire who falls in love with Lemmon in drag. One of Billy Wilder's most successful comedies, with plenty of his satirical edge underneath the film's knockabout surface. Billy Wilder---USA---1959---122 mins.
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SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
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James Stewart stars as Charles Lindbergh, hero of the first trans-Atlantic flight, in this stirring drama from the great Billy Wilder. Based on Lindbergh's Pulitzer winning autobiography, the film recounts the struggles and successes of the pioneering hero. Billy Wilder---USA---1957---137 mins.
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STALAG 17 SPEC COLLECTOR'S ED
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Billy Wilder's World War II POW drama stars William Holden in an Oscar-winning performance as a soldier suspected of being a spy when two prisoners are killed trying to escape. Otto Preminger also appears. "Wilder brilliantly blends drama with comedy [...] The granddaddy of all World War II POW films" (Leonard Maltin, Movie and Video Guide). Billy Wilder---USA---1953---120 mins.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD
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Gloria Swanson is the aging silent film queen and William Holden the struggling writer who falls into her lair in this bizarre, dark and desperate portrait of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim is magnificent as Swanson's loyal butler and former husband. A number of Hollywood veterans appear as themselves, including Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille, and Hedda Hopper. "Sunset Boulevard remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusion..." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times). Billy Wilder---USA---1950---110 mins.
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