Actors, Actresses and Directors - Volume 1 - Rock Hudson: All that heaven allowed (2023) and Billy Wilder speaks (2006)

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Stephen Kijak
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt13514636

Cast

Rock Hudson ... Self (archive footage)
Joe Carberry ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend
Tim Turner ... Self - Joe's husband
Lee Garlington ... Self - Rock Hudson's partner
Paul Garlington ... Self - Lee's husband
Ken Jillson ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend
Ken Maley ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend

Description: The biography of renowned actor Rock Hudson is examined in this relevant investigation of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity, from his public "ladies' man" character to his private life as a gay man.

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Video : 2.46 GB, 3368 Kbps, 24 fps, 1280x720 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 478 MB, 640 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = E-AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) and Spanish closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired) and Spanish) poster and screenshots included



Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 71 min
Language: English/German
Country: United States/Germany
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff/Gisela Grischow
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0823715

Cast

Volker Schlondorff - Self
Billy Wilder - Self

Description: In 1988, Oscar-winning German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder at his office in Beverly Hills, California and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. The conversation went on for two weeks. The results were aired on German TV in 1992 and debuted on U.S. television when it was shown on Turner Classic Movies in 2006. We are presented with a generous smattering of film clips, rare photographs and artwork, but mostly Wilder just sits in his office and talks with the off screen Schlondorff, moving easily between English and German. Clips shown include: "Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," "A Foreign Affair," "Sunset Blvd.," "Ace in the Hole." "Stalag 17," "Sabrina," "Witness for the Prosecution," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment." Wilder discusses all these films, and the actors in them as well. Mostly, Wilder offers his philosophy of movie making from one of its undisputed masters. As one might expect from Wilder, he peppers his conversations with hilarious anecdotes, keen insights into the craft of movie making and frank advice about the art of survival in Hollywood.

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Video : 925 MB, 1816 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704x478 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 98 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English picture based subtitle (PGS) closed captions for German parts embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, poster and screenshots included

The spirit of St. Louis (1957) - classic adventure movie based on life of Charles Lindbergh, starring James Stewart

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 135 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051003/

Cast

James Stewart ... Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
Murray Hamilton ... Bud Gurney
Patricia Smith ... Mirror Girl
Bartlett Robinson ... Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.
Marc Connelly ... Father Hussman
Arthur Space ... Donald Hall, Chief Engineer Ryan Airlines
Charles Watts ... O.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.

Description: A Hollywood version of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic solo flight from New to Paris. Lindbergh had been a flier in the Army Air Corps and subsequently flew in air shows and delivering the mail by air. He had the $25,000 Orteig prize in his sights as a means of paying for the flight. He travels to California and works with Ryan Aircraft to build a brand new airplane specifically designed for the solo trip. He departed in the early hours of May 20, 1927 arriving at Paris Le Bourget airfield just over 33 hours later and thus making aviation history.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.64 GB, 1739 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x336 ~> 853x336 (2.55:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 144
Audio : 443 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Swedish, Hungarian, Romanian) posters and screenshots included

The apartment (1960) - comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray, directed by Billy Wilder

Rating 8.4/10
Runtime: 125 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/

Cast

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

Description: 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. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment...

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Also included a set of extra material:

* "Inside the Apartment" featurette - with input from Chris Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Walter Mirisch, Drew Casper and others

* "Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon" featurette - 12 minute spotlight on the actor's craft and skills with input from colleagues


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Video : 1.94 GB, 2217 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 854x364 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 133
Audio : 573/72 MB (main/commentary), 640/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


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Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is additional audio commentary by film historian Bruce Block. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentary on Track 2)

Sabrina (1954) - Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047437/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Linus Larrabee
Audrey Hepburn ... Sabrina Fairchild
William Holden ... David Larrabee
Walter Hampden ... Oliver Larrabee
John Williams ... Thomas Fairchild
Martha Hyer ... Elizabeth Tyson

Description: Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work - busily running the family corporate empire with no time for a wife and family. David is all play - technically employed in the family business but never showing up for work, spending all his time entertaining, and having been married and divorced three times. Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but whom David hardly notices till she goes away to Paris for two years and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds she's captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself also falling in love with Linus...

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Video : 1.17 GB, 1569 Kbps, 25 fps, 716x572 ~> 762x572 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 68
Audio : 174 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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Love in the afternoon (1957) - Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder comedy

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 130 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050658/

Cast

Gary Cooper ... Frank Flannagan
Audrey Hepburn ... Ariane Chavasse/Thin Girl
Maurice Chevalier ... Claude Chavasse
Van Doude ... Michel
John McGiver ... Monsieur X
Lise Bourdin ... Madame X
Bonifas ... Commissioner of Polilce (phoned by Ariane)

Description: Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

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Video : 1.54 GB, 1700 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704*400 (16:9), XviD = XviD 1.2.0.dev47
Audio : 179 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3


Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French as SUB/IDX files + Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, Romanian in SRT/TXT format) + sample ( 16 MB)

Five graves to Cairo (1943) - war adventure movie from director Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035884/

Cast

Franchot Tone ... Cpl. John J. Bramble / Davos
Anne Baxter ... Mouche
Akim Tamiroff ... Farid
Erich von Stroheim ... Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Peter van Eyck ... Lt. Schwegler
Fortunio Bonanova ... Gen. Sebastiano

Description: June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border- Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves'.Now the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret.

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The lost weekend (1945) - Ray Milland and Jane Wyman starring in Billy Wilder's Oscar winning drama

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884/

Cast

Ray Milland ... Don Birnam
Jane Wyman ... Helen St. James
Phillip Terry ... Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva ... Nat
Doris Dowling ... Gloria

Description: The unsuccessful writer Don Birnham is an alcoholic. Only his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen managed to keep him sober for 10 days and plan a little vacation on the countryside for the weekend. But Don manages to send them both away the evening before. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. Alone at home, without any money, he's desperate for something to drink.

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Stalag 17 (1953) - classic war movie directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss and Harvey Lembeck

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 120 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/

Cast

William Holden ... Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Don Taylor ... Lt. James Dunbar
Otto Preminger ... Oberst von Scherbach
Robert Strauss ... Sgt. Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa
Harvey Lembeck ... Sgt. Harry Shapiro
Richard Erdman ... Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Peter Graves ... Sgt. Frank Price

Description: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem - there seems to be a security leak. The Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For some in Barracks 4, especially the loud-mouthed Duke, the leaker is obvious: J.J. Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that no other prisoner seems to have. Sefton denies giving the Germans any information and makes it quite clear that he has no intention of ever trying to escape. He plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but it doesn't extend to spying for the Germans. As tensions mount and mob mentality takes root, it becomes obvious Sefton will have to find the real German agent in their midst...

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Video : 4.31 GB, 5118 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 776x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 115/67 (main/commentary), 132/78 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Chinese closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton and co-playwright Donald Bevan. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)

Some like it hot (1959) - excellent comedy from director Billy Wilder, starring Marylin Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Pat O'Brien

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/

Cast

Marilyn Monroe ... Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis ... Joe - 'Josephine'/'Junior'
Jack Lemmon ... Jerry - 'Daphne'
George Raft ... Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien ... Det. Mulligan
Joe E. Brown ... Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff ... Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee ... Sweet Sue
Billy Gray ... Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone ... Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry ... Beinstock

Description: Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are in Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry - as Daphne - will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

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With extra material included:

* The Making of "Some Like It Hot" (26 mins.) — A casual, well-made thumbnail history assembled from new and archival materials that chronicle the film's writing (including good moments spent on Joe E. Brown's closing line) and production.

* The Legacy of "Some Like It Hot" (20 min) — An even more nostalgic and warmly felt companion piece to "The Making of...", this one adds Hugh Hefner, UCLA cinema professor Harold Suber, producer Walter Mirisch and director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) to Lemmon, Curtis, Wilder and Mrs. Diamond.

* "Nostalgic Look Back" (31 min) — An interview with Tony Curtis by Leonard Maltin.

* "Memories from the Sweet Sues" (12 min) — retrospective interviews with four of the bit-part actresses who played members of the all-girl jazz band, who recall being on the set, with most of the talk revolving around Marylin Monroe.

* Interactive 3-D Hall of Memories — 21-minute montage of stills, scene snippets and "Never-Before-Seen" photos, devoted to Monroe, Curtis, Lemmon, Wilder and Behind The Scenes.

* Original theatrical trailer


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.54 GB, 2987 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 952*576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 334/70 MB (main/commentary), 384/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Serbian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by actors Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, son of co-screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond and screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, commentary on Track 2)