The Apartment, United Artists, 1960. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Directed by Billy Wilder. B&W, 125 minutes. C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), better known as Bud, spends his days as one of a sea of accountants for a …
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Love in the Afternoon
Love in the Afternoon, 1957, Allied Artists Picture Corporation. Starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier. Directed by Billy Wilder. B&W, 130 minutes. Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn), a young Parisian woman living with her private investigator father, Claude (Maurice Chevalier), …
The Lost Weekend
Writer Don Birnam is fighting failure with a bottle of cheap whiskey, and losing.
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina, 1954, Paramount Pictures. Starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart. Directed by Billy Wilder. B&W, 112 minutes. The daughter of the Larrabee family chauffeur, Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is in love with the younger of the two wealthy brothers, David …
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard, 1950, Paramount Pictures. Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson. Directed by Billy Wilder. B&W, 110 minutes. Screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) is deep in debt, short on work and on the verge of losing his car to repossession. Determined …
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity, 1944, Paramount Pictures. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Billy Wilder. B&W, 107 minutes. Told in flashback by a man who knows he is doomed, Double Indemnity is a dark, sordid and altogether fascinating …
The Major and the Minor
Susan Applegate is ready to leave New York on the next train and return home to Iowa, only to discover she doesn't have enough for the fare. To solve her problem, she poses as a 12-year-old--and fools even the handsome …
Classic for a Reason 