Directed by Billy Wilder • 1943 • United States
Starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
The second film that Billy Wilder directed in Hollywood is a crackling World War II espionage thriller in which a British officer (Franchot Tone) stranded in Libya assumes the identity of a dead waiter in order to trick Erwin Rommel (legendary director-actor Erich von Stroheim, in one of his many memorable villain roles) into revealing the secret locations of the Nazis’ desert supplies. But an unsympathetic chambermaid (Anne Baxter) and the discovery of the dead waiter’s body threaten his mission, setting the stage for an action-packed desert adventure.
Directed by Billy Wilder • 1944 • United States
Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Wo...
Directed by Billy Wilder • 1945 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Billy Wilder’s searing portrait of alcoholic self-destruction broke new ground in its frank, hard-hitting treatment of addiction. Ray Milland delivers a fearless, Academy Award–winning performance as ...
Directed by Billy Wilder • 1948 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Émigré director Billy Wilder returned to Europe for this strikingly sophisticated romance, which daringly combines comedy and geopolitics amid the ruins of postwar Berlin. Jean Arthur came out of re...
