Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Double Indemnity (1944), Ace in the Hole (1951), Some Like It Hot (1959), Stalag 17 (1953), One, Two, Three (1961), Sabrina (1954), Hold Back the Dawn (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Billy Wilder movies.
Storyline: Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery?—Joel Preuninger <Jhpreunin@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, british, victorian era, sherlock holmes, dr. watson ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagination however.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, temptation, fantasy, new york, summer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner, the local piano teacher. By disabling Dino's car, Barney contrives a scheme to have Dino sing one of their songs on an upcoming TV special. To entertain Dino, Barney contacts the village tart, Polly, employing her to pretend to be Orville's wife, Zelda, for a night. She doesn't like Dino, but does love being Orville's surrogate wife. Dino goes to a bar, where he meets the real Zelda, and they spend the night together while Polly spends it with Orville.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, infidelity, musician, seduction, jealousy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) decides to leave New York City and take a train back to Iowa, but she has only enough money for a child's ticket. She disguises herself as a young girl and, after being discovered by the train conductor, hides out in the car of Major Kirby (Ray Milland). Kirby believes she is a child and watches after her. But as Kirby's fiancée (Rita Johnson) and others grow suspicious of Susan's ruse, her cleverness is thoroughly tested.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, war, drama, classic, black and white, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Idealistic Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) touches down in postwar Berlin on a fact-finding mission about legendary cabaret singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), long rumored to be the former mistress of one or more high-ranking Nazi leaders and now reportedly intimately involved with an unidentified American military officer. Frost falls for her military escort, Captain John Pringle (John Lund), unaware that the handsome American is the singer's secret paramour.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, black comedy, love triangle, political satire, moral dilemma, cultural clash ...
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