Hold Back The Dawn
Mitchell Leisen directed Hold Back The Dawn (1941) from a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Famously the director and screenwriters didn’t get along. However, the resulting film from… Read more »
Tag: Billy Wilder
Midnight
Midnight (1939) is the first of three films written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett that Mitchell Leisen directed. Midnight is a screwball comedy of mistaken identities that in the… Read more »
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
For many Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) is lesser Ernst Lubitsch. Sure Lubitsch and star Claudette Colbert could never top the “Jazz Up Your Lingerie” sequence in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931),… Read more »
Double Indemnity
A masterpiece in film is both a document of a culture unique to the time of its conception as well as a technical feat that provides continuing instruction and inspiration… Read more »
