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Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]
‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close up.’ Biting the hand that feeds him, Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Boulevard [Sunset Blvd.] is a […]
Marilyn Monroe gives her archetypal dumb-blonde act a total workout as The Girl, the unnamed ditzy new neighbour upstairs from tormented hero Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell), in Billy Wilder’s delicious 1955 choice comedy […]
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by […]