Entertainment Weekly, 07/25/2003, p.58, "...[With] two indisputable masterpieces....One enjoyably theatrical piece of courtroom hokum...[and] one riotous capitalism-in-the-Cold-War satire..."
Entertainment Weekly, 04/07/2006, p.48-49, "[It] highlights the Austrian director's wittiest and most sobering films..."
DVD Features:
Region 1
9-Disc Set
Keep Case
Disc 1: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.66
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Mono - English/French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: SOME LIKE IT HOT
Full Frame - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Documentary - 1. A LOOK BACK with Leonard Maltin and Tony Curtis
Featurette - 1. THE SWEET SUES
Interactive Features:
Interactive Tour - 1. HALL OF MEMORIES
Disc 3: THE APARTMENT
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Disc 4: ONE, TWO, THREE
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Mono - French
Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers
Disc 5: IRMA LA DOUCE
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Mono - French
Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers
Disc 6: KISS ME, STUPID
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers
Disc 7: THE FORTUNE COOKIE
Widescreen - 2.35
Single Side - Single Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailer
Disc 8: AVANTI!
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Mono - English
Mono - Spanish
Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Disc 9: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Mono - English
Additional Release Material:
Interview - 1. Ernest Walter - Editor
Deleted Scenes
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Additional Footage - 1. Christopher Lee: "Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wilder"
Text/Galleries:
Photo Gallery
Master storyteller Billy Wilder directed all nine films in this collection celebrating the director's classic films. A variety of romance, comedy, and mystery abounds in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957); SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959); THE APARTMENT (1960); IRMA LA DOUCE (1963); KISS ME, STUPID (1964), ONE, TWO, THREE (1961); THE FORTUNE COOKIE (1966); THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970); and AVANTI! (1972). Please see individual titles for synopses.