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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WILDER,BILLY
EAN: 9780792856177
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792856171
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 9
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Running Time: 1136 minutes
Sales Rank: 45702
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 19, 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
The Billy Wilder DVD Collection includes the following films: The Apartment, Avanti!, The Fortune Cookie, Irma la Douce, Kiss Me Stupid, One Two Three, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Some Like It Hot, and Witness for the Prosecution.
Amazon.com:
Even if 'nobody's perfect,' Billy Wilder sometimes came close. This DVD box presents a strong cross-section of films by one of Hollywood's greatest directors, and although his early Paramount years are not covered (they're available in a different set), the box does include a couple of Wilder's woefully underappreciated autumnal gems. Chronologically speaking, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution is the earliest film in the set, a crackerjack courtroom drama derived from Agatha Christie. It gives especially tasty roles to Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. With Some Like It Hot, Wilder merely created the film widely considered the best comedy of the sound era, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon impersonating female musicians in the Roaring Twenties. Marilyn Monroe is the songbird tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Wilder took home three Oscars® for The Apartment, his exquisitely bittersweet look at an organization man (Lemmon) who loans out his flat for his boss's liaisons.
One, Two, Three is a breathless Cold War comedy (and a time capsule of its era) with James Cagney as a Coca-Cola executive in Berlin. Irma La Douce teams Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in a racy Parisian love story that became a box-office smash. With Kiss Me, Stupid, Wilder suffered a rare flop, although the once-scandalous sex comedy looks better and sharper as it ages. The Fortune Cookie, which nabbed an Oscar for Walter Matthau, is one of Wilder's most cynical tales, but the last two films in the set represent Wilder's late-career romantic flowering. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes arranges slapstick around the melancholy, misogynistic figure of Holmes, who might just be a directorial self-portrait. Avanti! is a delightful, leisurely romance about a businessman (Lemmon again) who loosens up while in Italy settling his late father's business. It's a lovely end note for a snappy, often acerbic collection. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Magnificent!
Every single one of these films (excluding Irma la Douce) is worth seeing, and more than a few of them are masterpieces. The masterpieces: The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Kiss Me Stupid, One Two Three. The very good: Witness for the Prosecution, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The merely "good": Avanti. The average: The Fortune Cookie. The embarrassment: Irma la Douce. If you are a fan of Billy Wilder, this is a must.
Rating: - classic Wilder collection
For Billy Wilder fans, this is a must. Get this box set now before it is discontinued now that Sony distributes MGM's library.
Rating:  - great collection....but.....
This is a great collection but why is one of the best, Double Indemnity, missing ??? It is a good collection of a genius who was such a major influence on modern film making. Both his comedy and dramatic films are in this set. I have to say that his dramas hold up a lot better then the comedy films. The constent theme of stupid women, or the whore with "a heart of gold" now seems just pathatic and not endearing.
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