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- SUNSET BLVD. (1950) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr., Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Cecil B. DeMille.
- THE APARTMENT (1960) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen, Ray Walston, Edie Adams.
- SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.
- DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M. Cain. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber.
- The Apartment (1960) In "The Apartment," Jack Lemon plays C.C. Baxter, a milksop who works a boring desk job at a New York City insurance company. He's trying to get ahead at his company, and to do so he lets four executives borrow his apartment as a love nest for trysts with their extramarital lady friends in exchange for a good word on his behalf to the personnel director Mr. Sheldrake.
- Sunset Blvd. (1950) Joe Gillis is a once-successful screenwriter who is struggling to sell his latest script, racked up considerable debt, lost most of his friends in the film industry, and is considering getting out of the entertainment business to get a regular desk job.
- Some Like It Hot (1959) "Some Like It Hot" follows the story of two musicians who accidentally stumble into the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, and decide to skip town before mob boss Spats Colombo — who was behind the massacre — finds them.
- Double Indemnity (1944) Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, a salesman for an insurance company who develops a relationship with the flirtatious Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck.
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- 'One, Two, Three' (1961) Starring: James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Horst Buchholz. Going from one extreme to another, while Ace in the Hole is one of the most bitter and downbeat Billy Wider films, One, Two, Three – made a decade later – is one of his funniest and breeziest.
- 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur. Ace in the Hole is a movie that shows how movies can be satirical without necessarily also being comedies.
- 'Stalag 17' (1953) Starring: Robert Strauss, William Holden, Don Taylor. While Stalag 17 is, on the surface, a movie about prisoners of war, it does manage to be surprisingly funny for a film within such a genre.
- 'Irma la Douce' (1963) Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi. Shortly after the immensely successful The Apartment, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, and Shirley MacLaine re-teamed to make the good – yet not quite as great – Irma la Douce three years on from that aforementioned Oscar winner.
A ranking of the films directed by Billy Wilder that I have seen, presented in order of best to worst.
- Double Indemnity
- The Lost Weekend
- Sunset Boulevard
- Ace in The Hole
- Stalag 17
- Sabrina
- The Seven Year Itch
- Witness For The Prosecution
- Some Like It Hot
- The Apartment
A vital essential in the film noir canon, Double Indemnity is stylish, iconic, taut, venomous, and still cynical even upon modern eyes. Barbara Stanwyck is, simply, the femme fatale, an alluringly bored housewife who wants to stage the murder of her husband (Tom Powers) as an accident, so she can claim that elusive "double indemnity" clause in his ...
To modern viewers, the depictions of demons in The Lost Weekend may read as melodrama, as over-intense or unrealistic. One: The power of cinematic melodrama, of the sincere blasting and overwhelming of emotions using every tool in a filmmaker's palate, is underrated; what better way to immerse a viewer directly into a character's psychological stat...
A metatextual tragedy that reaches the highest heights of emotional intensity by plunging further and further into primal, emotional lows. That's not true just of the characters within Sunset Boulevard, but of the real-life film systems that allowed its characters (and performers) to flourish before evolving past the point of their relevance — an e...
If you're feeling dour about the state of contemporary media and need a pick-me-up, do not watch Ace in the Hole. While we primarily know Kirk Douglas as an onscreen paragon of virtue thanks to iconic rah-rah roles like Spartacus, Wilder has the actor fold, tighten, and sharpen his natural charm into a forceful weapon. Douglas plays a has-been news...
You can see a hint of the kind of tone that might become M*A*S*H in Stalag 17, Wilder's reunion with his Sunset Boulevard star William Holden. The stakes and circumstances are high and dire — Wilder's adaptation of a hit Broadway play takes place in a Germany World War II prisoner of war, and its imprisoned characters start to believe there is a th...
How's this for some classic Hollywood flavor? Sabrina gives us another indelible Wilder-Holden collaboration, with the addition of two absolute superstars: Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. These three undergo a delicious love triangle that is as sparkly, sweet, and sharp as you might imagine from such magnificent Hollywood players. But it's not ...
When you think of Marilyn Monroe, you think of her in a white dress, the sudden steam of a subway grate causing it to blow around her as she grabs it and laughs. This beyond-iconic image, perhaps the image of what we call "classic Hollywood," comes to us courtesy of Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch. Referring to the amount of time someone can spe...
Witness for the Prosecution works so well as a fiery intersection between various different modes and impulses. It's a classical courtroom drama that also functions as a gripping whodunit, courtesy of Agatha Christie's source material. It's made by the great American filmmaker Billy Wilder, but it is an utterly British-feeling film, allowing this "...
Some Like It Hot is a peerless watch, a fierce and fascinating crime-rom-com with ripples that have affected nearly every comedy since, especially those that play with other genres and odd couple relationships (there is no Rush Hour without Some Like It Hot, and I will not be taking questions at this time). Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis star as jazz ...
A slice-of-life dramedy whose tragedies are tempered by moments of mirth, whose intimate hiccups are rendered in heightened emotional states, and whose ultimate optimism feels attainably realistic. The Apartment is one heckuva motion picture, is what I'm saying. Lemmon returns to play in Wilder's world, but a much more subdued, realistic one, that ...
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Wilder’s best known films include Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
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