In early-1950s Hollywood, obscure screenplay-writer Joe Gillis is unable to sell his work to the studios Read More »
Tag Archives: Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets Read More »
Ace In The Hole (1951) Billy Wilder, Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. Read More »
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) Billy Wilder, James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation’s infancy Read More »
Buddy, Buddy (1981) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco Read More »
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Billy Wilder, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor Read More »
The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be over the worst Read More »
Fedora (1978) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef
The former successful and famous Polish actress Fedora commits suicide at the Mortcerf Station, jumping off in front of a train. Read More »
Sabrina (1954) Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Read More »
Love in the Afternoon (1957) Billy Wilder, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. Read More »
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Billy Wilder, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. Read More »
Avanti! (1972) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster crosses paths with London shop girl Pamela Piggott when they come to Ischia to pick up the bodies of her mother and his father Read More »
Bad Seed (1934) Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
In the 30’s, in Paris, the playboy Henri Pasquier is supported by his father, Dr. Pasquier with money and a brandy new car. Read More »
The Major and the Minor (1942) Billy Wilder, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Comedy, Romance
New York working woman Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but doesn’t have the railroad fare so that she disguises herself as a kid to ride half an hour. Read More »
One, Two, Three (1961) Billy Wilder, James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Comedy
Berlin is the epitome of political and economic polarization. A microcosm of that polarization is the life of American C.R. MacNamara, known as Mac to his friends. Read More »