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Billy Wilder Collection - The Apartment/ Seven Year Itch/ Witness For The Prosecution/ Fortune Cookie/ The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (DVD)
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Billy Wilder Collection - The Apartment/ Seven Year Itch/ Witness For The Prosecution/ Fortune Cookie/ The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (DVD)
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Box set containing five classic films from acclaimed
writer/director Billy Wilder. In 'The Apartment' (1960), Jack
Lemmon plays C.C Baxter, an ambitious insurance clerk who hopes to
win a promotion by letting his superiors use his apartment as a
secret love nest. The plan seems simple enough, but things go awry
when Baxter's immediate boss (Fred MacMurray) wants to use the
apartment for a rendevouz with Fran Kubelik (Shirley Maclaine), an
elevator operator whom the young clerk already holds a candle for.
In 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955), happily-married Richard Sherman
(Tom Ewell) is left in New York City while his wife and child go on
summer vacation. His lively imaginings of what a summer of freedom
has in store seem to have some validity when a beautiful and
sensuous young girl (Marilyn Monroe) moves into the sublet
upstairs. In 'Witness for the Prosecution' (1957), Sir Wilfrid
Robarts (Charles Laughton) is an ailing barrister who has been told
that he should accept fewer legal cases for the sake of his health.
However, he cannot resist defending Leonard Stephen Vole (Tyrone
Power), a man accused of murder whose only alibi is provided by his
devoted wife, Christine (Marlene Dietrich). The police are
convinced of Vole's guilt as he stands to benefit financially from
the murder, but Robarts believes that he can prove the man's
innocence in court. In 'The Fortune Cookie' (1966), Lemmon plays
Harry Hinkle, a news cameraman who is knocked over while covering a
football game and subsequently rushed to hospital. Walter Matthau
plays Whiplash Willie, Hinkle's brother-in-law, an unscrupulous
lawyer who knows an opportunity when he sees one and tries to
persuade Hinkle to fake injury and sue for a million dollars.
Hinkle agrees, but will he be able to keep up the pretence?
Finally, in 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970), Sherlock
Holmes' pursuit of a missing husband provides the pretext to
explore sides of the sleuth's character which have remained
hitherto unexplored in filmed versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's
stories. Robert Stephens plays Holmes as a troubled man, addicted
to cocaine and unsure about his sexuality.
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