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Tag Archives: Billy Wilder
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) Billy Wilder, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston

Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. Read More »
Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

In early-1950s Hollywood, obscure screenplay-writer Joe Gillis is unable to sell his work to the studios Read More »
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

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 »