Billy Wilder

Vinnare av fem Oscar 1960, inklusive Bästa Film.<br/><br/>I THE APARTMENT visar den legendariska manusförfattaren/regissören Billy Wilder sitt bästa på ett dräpande och satiriskt sätt, i en av historiens finaste Hollywood-komedier.<br/><br/>C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) vet hur man lyckas i affärer... vägen går genom dörren till hans lägenhet! Genom att tillhandahålla ett perfekt gömställe för kurtiserande chefer får den ambitiöse unge medarbetaren oförtjänt befordran flera gånger. Men när Bud lånar ut nyckeln till den store bossen J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), främjar han inte bara sin karriär, utan även sitt eget kärleksliv. För Sheldrakes älskarinna är den förtjusande Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), hissflicka och ängel i Buds drömmar. Övertygad om att han är den rätte mannen för Fran, måste Bud fatta sin karriärs viktigaste beslut: förlora flickan... eller jobbet.

Amerikansk noir-film från 1950 med element av drama och svart humor. Filmen regisserades och var delvis skriven av Billy Wilder.<br/><br/>William Holden spelar manusförfattaren Joe Gillis och Gloria Swanson spelar Norma Desmond; en avdankad filmstjärna som lockar Gillis till sin fantasivärld där hon drömmer om en triumfartad comeback.<br/><br/>Billy Wilder directs this Oscar-winning classic exposé of the Hollywood studio system. Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis (William Holden) is attempting to avoid his creditors when he pulls his car into the garage of an apparently deserted mansion. He soon discovers that it is in fact the home of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), an ageing actress who was once a star of silent films.<br/><br/>Desperate for money, Gillis agrees to work on a screenplay adaptation of 'Salome' which Norma has written for her intended comeback. Gillis then gradually becomes trapped in Norma's bizarre fantasy world, and when he tries to leave her, she makes an attempt at suicide. The film also features silent screen legends Cecil B.<br/><br/>DeMille, Buster Keaton and Erich von Stroheim in supporting roles.

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Billy Wilder directs this classic drama starring Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Laughton) is an ailing barrister who has been told that he should accept fewer legal cases for the sake of his health. However, he cannot resist defending Leonard Stephen Vole (Tyrone Power), a man accused of murder whose only alibi is provided by his devoted wife, Christine (Dietrich). The police are convinced of Vole's guilt as he stands to benefit financially from the murder, but Robarts believes that he can prove the man's innocence in court.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>British drama based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle in which a troubled, drug-using Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) pursues a missing engineer after his desperate wife pleads him to investigate the disappearance. The cast includes Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page and Christopher Lee.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Billy Wilder directs and produces this classic film noir starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling. Chuck Tatum (Douglas) is an ambitious journalist formerly of the big city who finds himself working for a small local newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after being fired from eleven previous jobs. When he hears that a man has become trapped in a cave nearby he seeks out the story with a justification that it has human interest. Realising that this may be the biggest story he's ever going to write, he manipulates the rescue workers into changing their plan so as to prolong the drama for as long as possible. He then finds an unlikely ally in the victim's wife, Lorraine (Sterling), as she reveals she no longer loves her husband and wants to get out of the marriage. As hours turn into days with the rescue attempt failing, Chuck begins to wonder if this time he has gone too far for a story.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Billy Wilder's classic drama starring Ray Milland as a writer and alcoholic who encourages his brother to embark on a drinking session with him around New York. Don Birnam (Milland)'s struggles with alcohol have become clear to those close to him. However, having satisfied himself that Don hasn't had a drink for ten days, his brother, Wick (Philip Terry), agrees to escort Don's girlfriend Helen (Jane Wynam) to a show while the writer prepares himself for their planned trip to the country. Instead, Don uses the absence of the pair to search his apartment for the booze Wick has hidden and sets off for the city's watering holes when he fails to locate it. Over the days that follow, Helen and the increasingly exasperated Wick attempt to track down the absent Don, but can anyone help the wayward writer get back on the wagon?<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

William Holden and Don Taylor star in this classic Second World War drama directed by Billy Wilder. After two American prisoners are killed trying to escape from the notorious German camp Stalag 17, the blame for their betrayal falls upon the cynical, self-serving Sergeant Sefton (Holden), whose dealings with the enemy isolate him from his fellow inmates. But does Sefton's disinterest in team bonding and group morale necessarily mean he is the traitor in their midst?