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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097360484748
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Running Time: 342 minutes
Sales Rank: 51342
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1954-10
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This boxed set shows the many moods of director Billy Wilder from luxurious cynicism to spiky romance. He's teamed up for all three pictures with William Holden and the two are perfectly tuned to each other's sardonic intelligence. Actually Holden was a last-minute replacement in Sunset Boulevard when Montgomery Clift abruptly backed out of the project. Holden plays a hard-luck screenwriter who takes refuge in the home of a deluded silent-movie star (played by Gloria Swanson); we know this because his corpse is telling us the story. The 1950 film is one of the great decayed mansions of Hollywood cinema a fully imagined look at the souring of the American Dream. And of course a poison-pen letter to the movie business--Wilder took pleasure in biting the hand that fed him.Stalag 17 (1953) won the Best Actor Oscar® for Holden although it's a less complex piece of work than Sunset Boulevard. It is however thoroughly entertaining with a seamless blend of suspense (who in the POW camp is betraying secrets to the Germans?) and raucous comedy. Sixties-TV fans will quickly spot the similarity with the Bob Crane sitcom Hogan's Heroes. Otto Preminger himself a director creates a suave piece of villainy as the German camp commandant. In Sabrina (1954) Holden is a blond fatuous younger brother to staid businessman Humphrey Bogart--but they both do supporting work to Audrey Hepburn. This is one of her great vehicles and she inspires Wilder to show more of his romantic side. As the chauffeur's daughter who dreams of mingling with the beautiful people Hepburn shines in the lush glow of moonlight and "Isn't it Romantic?" and the movie finds a zone of pure pleasure. (Robert Horton)System Requirements:Running Time: 342 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 097360484748 Manufacturer No: 048474
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Billy Wilder died earlier this year at 95 years old, and it was still too soon. A shame that Hollywood left him after "Buddy Buddy," to spend the last twenty years of his life pining for a movie production that never came his way.
These three movies represent Wilder in his heydey at Paramount Pictures, and also his three best with William Holden, who was just at home playing it straight or wisecracking. Sure, I'd like to see "The Apartment," and "Some Like It Hot" on this collection, but those ... Read More
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The movies chosen to present this trio of Wilder films are all excellent in their own genre. Not only are Sunset Blvd., Stalag 17, and Sabrina "true classics",but the extra bonus features
take you inside the set and inside the mind of Billy Wilder. The well spoken narrative on all three films is not only intelligent but enlightening as well. You can really benefit by watching all three films "as they are", but then again
WITH the narrative because it is then that you learn how Wilder worked ... Read More
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