Directed By Billy Wilder

  
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In a remote oasis hotel in the Sahara Desert, British soldier Franchot Tone impersonates a servant in order to get information from the inn's newest "guests": invading Afrika Korps tank troops and their commander, Gen. Irwin Rommel (Erich von Stroheim). Things get tricky when Tone learns the servant was really a German spy in the WWII espionage tale "Five Graves To Cairo" (1943). The caustic comedy "A Foreign Affair" (1948) finds dignified congresswoman Jean Arthur's investigation into black market influence on occupying GIs in post-war Berlin bringing her into close contact with handsome officer John Lund. The problem is that Lund is involved with Marlene Dietrich, a nightclub singer with ties to former Nazi officials. 3 1/2 hrs. total on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
Academy Award ®
Nominee: Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Interior Decoration (B&W), Best Editing
 
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Directed By Billy Wilder DVD

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  • The Apartment (1960)

    Category: Comedy | Director: Billy Wilder | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

    Billy Wilder's acerbic look at corporate life stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious insurance clerk desperate to get ahead at work. While trying to romance beautiful elevator operator Shirley MacLaine, he ... more

    Academy Award ®
    Winner: Best Picture, Best Director (Billy Wilder), Best Original Screenplay, Best Interior Decoration (B&W), Best Editing
    Nominee: Best Actor (Jack Lemmon), Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Sound
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  • The Apartment (Collector's Edition) (1960)

    Category: Comedy | Director: Billy Wilder | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

    Billy Wilder's acerbic look at corporate life stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious insurance clerk desperate to get ahead at work. While trying to romance beautiful elevator operator Shirley MacLaine, he ... more

    Academy Award ®
    Winner: Best Picture, Best Director (Billy Wilder), Best Original Screenplay, Best Interior Decoration (B&W), Best Editing
    Nominee: Best Actor (Jack Lemmon), Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Sound
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  • Avanti! (1972)/Irma La Douce (1963)

    Category: Comedy | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Juliet Mills

    First, Billy Wilder's touching and funny romantic farce "Avanti!" focuses on a stodgy corporate executive (Jack Lemmon) who's in Italy to claim the body of his father, who has been killed in an accident. ... more

    Academy Award ®
    Winner: Best Score (Adaptation or Treatment)
    Nominee: Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine), Best Cinematography (Color)
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  • Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

    Category: Comedy | Director: Billy Wilder | Rated: PG13 | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston

    Billy Wilder's once-controversial farce stars Dean Martin as a Las Vegas crooner who is detoured to a small Nevada town where he meets two amateur songwriters (Cliff Osmond and Ray Walston), who'll do ... more

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  • The Front Page (1974)

    Category: Comedy | Director: Billy Wilder | Rated: PG | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett

    Billy Wilder's reworking of the lightning-quick Hecht-MacArthur newspaper satire features Jack Lemmon as the Chicago reporter who, along with gruff editor Walter Matthau, becomes embroiled in getting ... more

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  • Auntie Mame (1958)

    Category: Comedy | Director: Morton DaCosta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne

    Rosalind Russell re-creates her Broadway triumph as the flashy, lovably eccentric socialite who takes her orphaned nephew under her wing and shows him around the world of the Roaring '20s. Based on Patrick ... more

    Academy Award ®
    Nominee: Best Picture, Best Actress (Rosalind Russell), Best Supporting Actress (Peggy Cass), Best Cinematography (Color), Best Art Direction--Set Decoration, Best Editing
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  • The Reluctant Debutante (Remastered Edition) (1958)

    Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: DVD-R | Starring: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon

    Sparkling comedy stars Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall as a well-to-do London couple who would like to see Sandra Dee, Harrison's daughter from a prior marriage, enter society and marry into an upper-class ... more

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  • Simon And Laura (1955)

    Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow

    Decades before reality TV blossomed, there was this British satire featuring Peter Finch and Kay Kendall as a constantly bickering show business couple hired by BBC producer Ian Carmichael to star in ... more

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  • Upstairs And Downstairs (1959)

    Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Mylene Demongeot, Anne Heywood, James Robertson Justice

    For rising executive Richard (Michael Craig) and new wife Kate (Anne Heywood), the search for good domestic help turns into a succession of increasingly unsuitable...if not unstable...candidates, from ... more

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  • Castle In The Air (1952)

    Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Norman Macowan, Stringer Davis, Archie Duncan

    Dwindling fortunes force a Scottish earl (David Tomlinson) to consider selling his family castle, which he already rents out as a bed and breakfast. An American heiress and a National Coal Board official ... more

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