Results: Billy Wilder * Writer * Director & Producer made some of the most famous Dramas in the Golden Days of Hollywood. 6 Time Oscar Winner

In Double Indemnity Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. Based on the Raymond Chandler Mystery. Nominated for 7 Oscars, won 2 Awards - Have you seen....

Lost Weekend tells the story of Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Winner of 4 Oscars, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Have you seen Lost Weekend?

Sunset Boulevard tells the story of early-1950s Hollywood, obscure screenplay-writer Joe Gillis is unable to sell his work to the studios. Deep in debt he is thinking of returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire, parks his car in the driveway of a decadent mansion on Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond. She lives with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma has dementia and believes she will return to the cinema industry. She is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past, he still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema. The small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love with young aspiring writer Betty Schaefer. Norma becomes dangerously jealous and her madness leads to a tragic end. Winner of 3 Oscars, Best Musical Score, Best Art Direction and Sets, Best Screenplay This has also been made into a Stage Musical. Carol Burnett did several skits spoofing this film. Have you seen .....

Stalag 17 - 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, which he finally does. William Holden won the Best Actor Oscar for his role, have you seen Stalag 17?

In Witness for the Prosecution - Ailing barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending Leonard Vole, a man being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman. With Robarts choosing to represent him, the two find themselves up against Leonard's cold-hearted wife, Christine - who, in a surprising turn of events, chooses to appear in court against her husband. This Agatha Christie Mystery was adapted for the Screen by Billy Wilder. It was nominated for 15 Awards and won 3.! Have you seen ....