Billy Wilder: The Art of Comedy - 5-DVD Boxset ( The Apartment / Irma la Douce / Kiss Me, Stupid / The Fortune Cookie / One, Two, Three )

Billy Wilder: The Art of Comedy - 5-DVD Boxset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Apartment / Irma la Douce / Kiss Me, Stupid / The Fortune Cookie / One, Two, Three
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
601 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1960-1966 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Billy Wilder

Written By:
Billy Wilder
I.A.L. Diamond
Alexandre Breffort

Anna Bonacci
Ferenc Molnár

Actors:
Jack Lemmon ..... C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine ..... Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray ..... Jeff D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston ..... Joe Dobisch
Jack Kruschen ..... Dr. Dreyfuss
David Lewis ..... Al Kirkeby
Hope Holiday ..... Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Joan Shawlee ..... Sylvia
Naomi Stevens ..... Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Johnny Seven ..... Karl Matuschka
Joyce Jameson ..... The Blonde
Willard Waterman ..... Mr. Vanderhoff
David White ..... Mr. Eichelberger
Edie Adams ..... Miss Olsen
Dorothy Abbott ..... Office Worker
Bill Baldwin ..... TV Movie Host
Jack Lemmon ..... Nestor Patou / Lord X
Shirley MacLaine ..... Irma La Douce
Lou Jacobi ..... Moustache
Bruce Yarnell ..... Hippolyte
Herschel Bernardi ..... Inspector Lefevre
Hope Holiday ..... Lolita
Joan Shawlee ..... Amazon Annie
Grace Lee Whitney ..... Kiki - the Cossack
Paul Dubov ..... Andre
Howard McNear ..... Concierge
Cliff Osmond ..... Police Sergeant
Diki Lerner ..... Jojo
Herb Jones ..... Casablanca Charlie
Ruth Earl ..... One of the Zebra Twins
Jane Earl ..... One of the Zebra Twins
Dean Martin ..... Dino
Kim Novak ..... Polly the Pistol
Ray Walston ..... Orville
Felicia Farr ..... Zelda
Cliff Osmond ..... Barney
Barbara Pepper ..... Big Bertha
Skip Ward ..... Milkman
Doro Merande ..... Mrs. Pettibone
Bobo Lewis ..... Waitress
Tom Nolan ..... Johnnie Mulligan
Alice Pearce ..... Mrs. Mulligan
John Fiedler ..... Rev. Carruthers
Arlen Stuart ..... Rosalie Schultz
Howard McNear ..... Mr. Pettibone
Cliff Norton ..... Mack Gray
Jack Lemmon ..... Harry Hinkle
Walter Matthau ..... Willie Gingrich
Ron Rich ..... Luther 'Boom Boom' Jackson
Judi West ..... Sandy Hinkle
Cliff Osmond ..... Purkey
Lurene Tuttle ..... Mother Hinkle
Harry Holcombe ..... O'Brien
Les Tremayne ..... Thompson
Lauren Gilbert ..... Kincaid
Marge Redmond ..... Charlotte Gingrich
Noam Pitlik ..... Max
Harry Davis ..... Dr. Krugman
Ann Shoemaker ..... Sister Veronica
Maryesther Denver ..... Nurse
Ned Glass ..... Doc Schindler
Sig Ruman ..... Professor Winterhalter
James Cagney ..... C.R. MacNamara
Horst Buchholz ..... Otto Ludwig Piffl
Pamela Tiffin ..... Scarlett Hazeltine
Arlene Francis ..... Phyllis MacNamara
Howard St. John ..... Wendell P. Hazeltine
Hanns Lothar ..... Schlemmer
Leon Askin ..... Peripetchikoff
Ralf Wolter ..... Borodenko
Karl Lieffen ..... Fritz
Hubert von Meyerinck ..... Count von Droste Schattenburg
Loïs Bolton ..... Melanie Hazeltine
Peter Capell ..... Mishkin
Til Kiwe ..... Reporter
Henning Schlüter ..... Dr. Bauer
Karl Ludwig Lindt ..... Zeidlitz
Liselotte Pulver ..... Fräulein Ingeborg

Synopsis:

The Apartment: As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake... Irma la Douce: Naive, by the book French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station and organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. This unfortunately disrupts the well organized system of the police and the Pimps union. Not to mention inadvertently netting his station superior at the brothel. Fired, he goes to a bar to drink, is befriended by Irma, beats up her pimp, and finds he is now Irma's new pimp. Nester's doesn't like the thought of his girl seeing other men, so comes up with a plan. Kiss Me, Stupid: Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner, the local piano teacher. By disabling Dino's car, Barney contrives a scheme to have Dino sing one of their songs on an upcoming TV special. To entertain Dino, Barney contacts the village tart, Polly, employing her to pretend to be Orville's wife, Zelda, for a night. She doesn't like Dino, but does love being Orville's surrogate wife. Dino goes to a bar, where he meets the real Zelda, and they spend the night together while Polly spends it with Orville. The Fortune Cookie: A CBS cameraman is accidentally knocked out during a football game in Cleveland. His brother-in-law, William 'Whiplash Willie' Gingrich, is the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers and starts a suit while he's still unconscious. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the Cleveland Browns player who injured him. One, Two, Three: Post-war Berlin is the microcosm of the polarization of West and East; American and Soviet. C.R. MacNamara's Coca-Cola's head of West Berlin operations, His life goes into a spin when he must deal with the visit of Scarlett Hazeltine; the 17yo spoilt daughter of his boss. On the same day Mac hears Mr. & Mrs. Hazeltine will be iarriving in a day, he also learns Scarlett's married Otto Ludwig Piffl, a staunch East German Communist. Mac also learns Scarlett's pregnant, Mac has to get Otto, and turn him into a respectable young man for the soon-to-be arriving boss... and Otto's father-in-law.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 15 November, 2020.