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BILLY WILDER COLLECTION: VOLUME 1
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| Starring: |
Edward Andrews,
Franco Angrisano,
Leon Askin,
Gianfranco Barra,
Herschel Bernardi,
Mel Blanc,
Lois Bolton,
Joe E. Brown,
Horst Buchholz,
Red Buttons,
James Cagney,
Lino Coletta,
Tony Curtis,
Felicia Farr,
John Fiedler,
Arlene Francis,
Pippo Franco,
Henry Gibson,
Guidarino Guidi,
Hope Holiday,
Lou Jacobi,
Howard St John,
Jack Lemmon,
Hanns Lothar,
Shirley MacLaine,
Dean Martin,
Mike Mazurki,
Doro Merande,
Juliet Mills,
Marilyn Monroe,
Raffaele Mottola,
Kim Novak,
Pat O'Brien,
Cliff Osmond,
Barbara Pepper,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Lilo Pulver,
George Raft,
Clive Revill,
Giacomo Rizzo,
Tura Satana,
Joan Shawlee,
Yanti Somer,
George E. Stone,
Pamela Tiffin,
Ray Walston,
Grace Lee Whitney,
Bruce Yarnell,
Harriette Young
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| Format: |
DVD |
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£15.99 |
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£13.11 |
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£2.88 |
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| Cat No: |
2836201000 |
| EAN: |
5039036030267 |
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| Distributor: |
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT. |
| Regions: |
2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East) |
| Rel. date: |
22 January, 2007 |
| Certificate: |
15 |
| Running Time: |
632 mins |
| Language: |
English |
| Description: |
Box set containing five classic movies from popular filmmaker Billy Wilder. In 'Avanti!' (1972), Jack Lemmon stars as American executive Wendell Armbuster. On travelling to Italy to recover his father's body after a car accident, Wendell soon becomes tied up in endless red tape, and is shocked to discover that his father had a mistress, who also died in the car crash. The mistress' daughter, Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills), arrives in Italy to collect her mother's body, and she and Wendell embark on a series of misadventures both comic and romantic. In 'Irma La Douce' (1963), Nestor (Lemmon) is a bumbling Parisian policeman who manages to get the sack after raiding a house of ill repute at which his boss is in attendance. Looking for work, he is taken on by streetwalker Irma La Douce (Shirley Maclaine) as her business manager, and soon finds himself falling in love with her. Determined to keep Irma faithful, Nestor disguises himself as an elderly English lord and becomes her sole client. All goes well, until Irma confesses her love to Nestor - not for him, but for his aged alter ego! In 'Kiss Me, Stupid' (1964), Dean Martin plays a sex-crazed singer who feigns a professional interest in an amateur songwriter, so that he can pursue a romantic interest in the latter's wife. However, the deceit does not all lay on Martin's side, and there follows a tangled web of bluff and double bluff, as the characters strive to work out who is fooling who. In 'One, Two, Three' (1961), C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney), an ambitious Berlin-based executive for an American cola company, sees his chances for advancement go up in smoke when his boss' daughter (Pamela Tiffin) comes on holiday to Berlin and ends up marrying a fierce young communist (Horst Buchholz). With the boss due to visit in a few days time, MacNamara sets to work, juggling angry Russians, officious Germans, and his own increasingly-exasperated wife, as he tries to put matters right. Finally, in 'Some Like it Hot' (1959), unemployed musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters, the duo are forced to disguise themselves as women and join Sweet Sue's all-girl band on the next train for Florida. Joe is attracted to Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's singer, while Jerry finds himself pursued enthusiastically by millionaire Osgood E. Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). Comic complications ensue. |
| Features: |
Interactive Menus\Enhanced WS tv\Bonus Footage\Trailers |
| Directors: |
Billy Wilder
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| Genre: |
Classic
Feature
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| No. of pieces |
5 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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