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| 1. Five Graves to Cairo (year: 1943) |
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action ...
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| 2. Some Like It Hot (year: 1959) |
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so d ...
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| 3. Stalag 17 (year: 1953) |
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The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic command ...
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| 4. Sunset Boulevard (year: 1950) |
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the e ...
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| 5. The Lost Weekend (year: 1945) |
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer whose lust for booze cons ...
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| 6. The Spirit of St. Louis (year: 1957) |
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A misfire for all concerned, The Spirit of St. Louis can be chalked up as a courageous failure. At age 48, James Stewart was far too old to be convinc ...
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