Billy Wilder
2) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1957
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
8) Ball of fire
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
10) Some like it hot
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two musicians in drag (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) dodge mobsters until a singer (Monroe) falls for one of them!
12) Some like it hot
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
14) Double indemnity
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
15) One, two, three
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An executive for Coca Cola must deal with the problems when his boss's daughter marries a communist.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank Flannegan, an American playboy infamous for his scandalous affairs is smitten by Ariane, the beautiful, innocent daughter of the worldly detective, hired by a man who believes that Frank is carrying on with his wife. Frank turns out to be no match for Ariane and they stumble through one of the funniest seductions.
17) Double indemnity
Series
Criterion collection volume 1126
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
18) Avanti
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
19) The apartment
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
C.C. "Bud" Baxter knows the way to success in business-- it's through the door of his apartment. By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake, he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik, elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that...
20) Avanti
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2hrs. 24min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stuffy Baltimore millionaire falls in love with the daughter of his late father's mistress when he comes to Italy to claim the old man's body.