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billy wilder dvd collection stalag 17 sunset boulevard sabrina 1954 full frame
this collection includes stalag 17 the scene is a german pow camp sometime during the mid 1940s . stalag 17 exclusively populated by american sergeants is overseen by sadistic commandant oberst von schernbach otto preminger and the deceptively avuncular sergeant schultz sig ruman . the inmates spend their waking hours circumventing the boredom of prison life ; at night they attempt to arrange escapes . when two of the escapees johnson and manfredi are shot down like dogs by the nazi guards stalag 17s resident wiseguy sefton william holden callously collects the bets hed placed concerning the fugitives success . no doubt about it theres a security leak in the barracks and everybody suspects the enterprising sefton who manages to obtain all the creature comforts he wants of being a nazi infiltrator . sabrina billy wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy sabrina based on the play by samuel a. taylor . sabrina fairchild audrey hepburn is the simple naive daughter of a chauffeur thomas fairchild john williams . they live on an estate with the wealthy oliver larrabee walter hampden and his two sons workaholic older brother linus humphrey bogart and fun loving younger brother david william holden . sabrina adores the charming david but he thinks of her as just a kid . her father sends her away to paris for chef school where she meets baron st. fontanel marcel dalio and she returns a worldly sophisticated woman . david immediately falls for her but he is already engaged to marry heiress elizabeth tyson martha hyer . sabrina wants to break up the wedding in order to finally catch the man of her dreams while linus fights to keep the marriage on in the interest of family business and mr. tysons francis x. bushman fortune . in order to keep sabrina away from david linus pretends to court her himself . in doing so they eventually realize their true feelings for each another . sunset boulevard billy wilders sunset boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom . the story begins at the end as the body of joe gillis william holden is fished out of a hollywood swimming pool . from the great beyond joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise . hotly pursued by repo men impoverished indebted boy wonder screenwriter gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned sunset boulevard mansion . wandering into the spooky place joe encounters its owner imperious silent star norma desmond gloria swanson . upon learning joes profession norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that shes been working on for years . joe realizes that the script is hopeless but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go . soon the cynical and opportunistic joe becomes normas kept man . br br audio commentary photo gallery trailers documentary behind the scenes featurette . br br featurettes stalag 17 from reality to screen ; the real heroes of stalag 17 ; edith head the paramount years ; the music of sunset boulevard ; hollywood location map ; all movies are presented in black & white .