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#23 in my Ranking of Billy Wilder movies. If you don’t see the twist coming from a mile away, then this might be the first movie you’ve ever seen. It’s obvious, and a bit frustrating that the movie holds onto that secret so long, but it does get revealed at the halfway point allowing the…

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The Front Page (1974)

#12 in my Ranking of Billy Wilder movies. The latest in a series of adaptations of a play from the early 20th century, The Front Page is an enjoyable and highly entertaining look at the journalistic trade. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau both shine in this movie, their third collaboration, and Billy Wilder keeps things…

Avanti!

#19 in my Ranking of Billy Wilder movies. Billy Wilder occasionally made a movie romance where the underlying logic of the central relationship can raise some eyebrows if you think about it for too long. The budding romance between a military officer and the grown woman he thinks is only fourteen years old in The…

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

#15 in my Ranking of Billy Wilder movies. With knowing winks and nods, Billy Wilder tells a witty and fun Sherlock Holmes tale. It was originally planned and even shot to be a much larger movie with more individual episodes (which made cutting it down from three and a half hours to two hours and…

Billy Wilder’s Movies Ranked: The Definitive Ranking

We come to it at last, another top list. May the listicle gods be appeased and grant bounties upon this blog. Hey, not a Top 10, so I’m good. Oh, and click here for all the Definitive Rankings. Billy Wilder’s filmography was great to wade through. He was a remarkable talent who almost always made…