Showing posts with label billy wilder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label billy wilder. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2007

he couldn't resist the opportunity to get back in the big time










billy wilder's ace in the hole, 1951
(aka the big carnival)
with kirk douglas, cinematography by charles lang

other great kirk douglas films i have watched lately:
-lonely are the brave, 1962 (d. david miller)
(a sad good bye to the west)
-paths of glory, 1957 (d. stanley kubrick)
-man without a star, 1955 (d. king vidor)
-out of the past, 1947 (d. jacques tourneur)

title (above) from kirk douglas in his interview found in the criterion collection 2-dvd set (a must have!).