Billy Wilder
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021" "Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category" "Longlisted for the National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association" Billy Wilder (1906–2002) wrote and directed Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment, among other films. Over the course of his career, he won seven Academy Awards. Noah Isenberg is the George...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (143 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 71 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with film clips, rare photographs and artwork, Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters. In a series of filmed interviews conducted by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), acclaimed writer/director WIlder (Sunset Blvd. , Some Like It Hot) recounts the achievements and pitfalls of his 60-year career. As one might expect from the maker of The Apartment, Double...
4) Stalag 17
Publisher
ECHELONSTUDIOS
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
5) Avanti!
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1972.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (144 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious romantic comedy from writer/director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, wealthy American Wendell Armbruster, Jr. (Jack Lemmon) discovers true love when he is summoned to Italy after a car accident claims the lives of his father and his father's secret mistress. As the mistress' daughter (Juliet Mills) also arrives in town, the bodies of both of their parents disappear, and the two instant foes are brought together in a...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Directed by Billy Wilder and starring screen legends Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, this courtroom drama left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Power), is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Dietrich)...but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (143 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Meet Nestor (Jack Lemmon), a young French policeman with a very complicated love life. To keep his beloved, the proud and profitable lady of the streets IRMA LA DOUCE (Shirley MacLaine), off the streets, he disguises himself as Lord X, who immediately becomes Irma’s sole client and means of support. But what’s a jealous boyfriend to do when Irma claims that the man she’s really in love with is not the smitten Nestor, but the dotty old Lord himself?...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ambitious insurance clerk C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) attempts to climb the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment key to his superiors for their extramarital affairs, but the plan backfires when Bud unwittingly falls for the top executive's current girlfriend, Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine). Fred MacMurray co-stars in this Billy Wilder classic that would go on to win five Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original...
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob hit, they trade in their union suits for flapper frocks and hightail it down to Florida as the newest members of an all-girl jazz band, "Josephine" and "Daphne". Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for "Josephine," and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax! Nominated for 7 Academy Awards®, "SOME LIKE IT HOT" is...
10) Sabrina
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden play the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie’s all work, Holden’s all playboy. But when Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of the family’s chauffeur, returns from Paris, the stage is set for some family fireworks. Nominated for six **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the **Golden Globes.** *"It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its heard, a satire about breaking down...
11) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
12) Ace in the Hole
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
13) Sunset Boulevard
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
14) The apartment
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
16) Avanti
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
18) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Flannegan, an American playboy infamous for his scandalous affairs is smitten by Ariane, the beautiful, innocent daughter of the worldly detective, hired by a man who believes that Frank is carrying on with his wife. Frank turns out to be no match for Ariane and they stumble through one of the funniest seductions.
20) Irma la Douce
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a young Parisian policeman and his romance with a prostitute.