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Billy Wilder Films
From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age, making over fifty films and winning six Academy Awards. One of the most brilliant and versatile Hollywood directors of all-time, Wilder produced accessible yet critically acclaimed films. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive titles,... show more > Recommended Films directed by Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity1944, Billy Wilder, DVD The archetypal film noir, Double Indemnity sees Barbara Stanwyck play the femme fatale in this tale of an insurance agent conniving with a beautiful client to kill her husband. Adapted from James M. Cain's novel by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandle... £5.99 RRP: £9.99
Save £4 Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)1959, Billy Wilder, DVD Without a doubt one of the finest films ever made, Billy Wilder's gender-bending comedy blends madcap capers with some of the sharpest dialogue this side of a stiletto. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two musicians on the run from the mob who dr... £8.49 RRP: £19.99
Save £11.50 The Lost Weekend1945, Billy Wilder, DVD Directed by Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot), this gut-wrenching adaptation of Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend horrified its studio, was rejected by test audiences, and was lobbied by temperance groups, yet we... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10 The Apartment1960, Billy Wilder, DVD Songs of Innocence and Experience replayed as a strip-lit corporate nightmare, The Apartment charts C. C. Baxter's rise from timid clerk to team player and descent from mensch to monster in exchange for lending his apartment for his boss's cinq-a-... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10 Billy Wilder Box Set1942-8, Billy Wilder, DVD A box set featuring some of Billy Wilder's greatest work celebrating the director's centenary. Includes his classic noir Double Indemnity, his Oscar-winning The Lost Weekend, and two new releases to DVD - The Major And The Minor, in which Ginger R... £9.99 RRP: £34.99
Save £25 Sunset Boulevard1950, Billy Wilder, DVD A silent screen diva longing for a return. A young screenwriter longing for a break. A career girl waylaid by a broken heart. Throwing in a mysterious butler and a dead chimp, Wilder's film is one of the most painful studies of fractured innocence... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10 A Foreign Affair1948, Billy Wilder, DVD Classic romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder. Prim congresswoman Phoebe Frost investigates, then falls in love with an army officer amidst the ruins of Berlin in the aftermath of WWII. But can she turn him away from the sultry charms of Diet... £6.99 RRP: £9.99
Save £3 Avanti1972, Billy Wilder, DVD The sunniest of Wilder's late works, this picture postcard Ischian romp finds Lemmon's puritanical executive shocked by revelations about his late father's peccadilloes before finding himself seduced by an English rose on an Italian patio. Old sty... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £6 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes1970, Billy Wilder, DVD One of the most perfectly realised films of Wilder's later period - a witty and exquisitely-crafted revisionist interpretation of the life of the great fictional detective. Robert Stephens, in a rare screen outing, is memorably three-dimensional i... £5.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £7 Irma La Douce1963, Billy Wilder, DVD Paris, the present. A gendarme falls for a tart, wondering what she does by night, whilst she wonders what he does by day... Saucy, raucous, Wilder at his cockiest. £6.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £9 Stalag 171953, Billy Wilder, DVD After an escape attempt from a German POW camp fails, resulting in the deaths of two inmates, the prisoners at once suspect Sefton, an unscrupulous inside dealer who trades with the Germans for privileges. After a beaten however, sefton determines... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £6 The Major and the Minor/Bachelor Mother1939; 1942, Billy Wilder, DVD 'The Major and the Minor' (1942) is a comedy starring the incomparable Ginger Rodgers - a young woman disillusioned with the big city, trying to get home. Lacking cash, she disguises herself as a child called Su-Su to get a child ticket. She is be... £11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1 One, Two, Three1961, Billy Wilder, DVD A tribute to Cagney and Coca-Colonialism, this re-packaging of Old Berlin for New World consumption remains thoroughly blinkered to its simplistic All-American assumptions. Cutting the ragged disputes of Cold War politics to fit the smooth cloth ... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £6 Kiss Me, Stupid1964, Billy Wilder, DVD Denounced in pulpits across the South, castigated in columns in the East, but inspiring poetry in Joan Didion, Wilder's raucous interrogation of the Doris Day vehicle has finally found critical sanctuary. Peopled by grotesques and trading in a hi... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £6 Sabrina (Wilder, 1954)1954, Billy Wilder, DVD A chauffeur's daughter arouses the amorous interest of her employer's sons when she returns from a trip to Paris. Billy Wilder's classic romance features typically strong performances from Bogart and Holden - and Hepburn, as always, is charming. £6.99 RRP: £9.99
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