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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard (1950) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

Billy Wilder's 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 (originally, the film contained a ...

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Sabrina

Sabrina (1954) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams

Billy Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the simple, naïve 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 ...

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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) more movies like this

directed by Henry King
featuring William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg

Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news correspondent Mark Elliot (William Holden), who unfortunately cannot obtain a divorce from his ...

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald

The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport ...

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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch (1969) more movies like this

directed by Paul Seydor, Sam Peckinpah
featuring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the brutal "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone, ...

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The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers (1959) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot Gibson

Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General Grant to take three regiments 300 miles into enemy territory. They must destroy the railroad line between Newton Station and Vicksburg in hopes of choking off supplies to the South. Marlowe encounters a Southern belle loyal ...

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Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles (1964) more movies like this

directed by Richard Quine
featuring William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan, Noël Coward, Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvallex

Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie producer Alexander Meyerheimer (Noël Coward) to ...

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S.O.B.

S.O.B. (1981) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert Loggia

In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director whose career is on the skids. Having just completed a family musical that is sure to be a $30 million flop, Felix knows that his days are numbered and tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide. When he ...

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The Bridges at Toko-Ri

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Earl Holliman, Robert Strauss

Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his wife Nancy (Grace Kelly) and their children. However, ...

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Picnic

Picnic (1955) more movies like this

directed by Joshua Logan
featuring William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson

One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan (Cliff Robertson, in his film debut). Hoping to ...

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Stalag 17 (1953) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck

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 ...

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Born Yesterday (1950) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto

Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by films. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her portrayal of Billie Dawn, a strident, dim-bulbed ex-chorus girl who is the mistress of millionaire junk tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford). In Washington to put a few senators ...

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Network (1976) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy

A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he "skews old." Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news. Beale can ...

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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) more movies like this

directed by George Seaton
featuring William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder, Eva Dahlbeck

In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to ...

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The Country Girl (1954) more movies like this

directed by George Seaton
featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross, Gene Reynolds

Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a deglamorized Grace Kelly, who won the Oscar for her performance in The Country Girl. This adaptation of Clifford Odets' play stars Crosby as Frank Elgin, a once-famous Broadway star who's hit the skids. Hotshot young director ...

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Satan Never Sleeps (1962) more movies like this

directed by Leo McCarey
featuring William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson

Director Leo McCarey returned to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) for this action drama, his final film. William Holden stars as Father O'Banion, a Catholic priest assigned to relieve the retiring Father Bovard (Clifton Webb) at a mission in China. Along the way, O'Banion has unwittingly ...

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The Devil's Brigade (1968) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins

During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until America's troops enter the war. As a part of this plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to plan and carry out an attack on Norway in order to tie ...

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The Towering Inferno (1974) more movies like this

directed by Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
featuring Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain

A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble is, Duncan's son-in-law and electrical ...

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Our Town (1940) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by Sam Wood featuring an evocative score by Aaron Copland and outstanding production design by William Cameron Menzies. Frank Craven is Mr. Morgan, the narrator and our guide through the small town of Grover's Corners in the more ...

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Damien: Omen II (1978) more movies like this

directed by Don Taylor
featuring William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can warn the world of the child's evil lineage, both men ...

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The Earthling (1980) more movies like this

directed by Peter Collinson
featuring William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn Kurts

Despite its title, The Earthling is not a science fiction opus. Instead, it's a low-key character study about a doomed man who finds a new lease on life by helping another lost soul. Suffering from terminal cancer, Patrick Foley (William Holden) returns to his native Australia. Intending to live out his last few months alone, Foley comes out of ...

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Breezy (1973) more movies like this

directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis

In this Counterculture vs. Establishment romance, Frank Harmon (William Holden) is a middle-aged businessman, recently divorced and a bit bitter about the state of his life and the world in general. One morning, he discovers a pretty, hippie-esque girl who calls herself Breezy (Kay Lenz) asleep on his front porch. Frank asks her to leave and she ...

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) more movies like this

directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring Lucille Ball, William Holden, Janis Carter, James Gleason, Gloria Henry

Lucille Ball is Miss Grant, an efficient but naïve secretary hired by William Holden. Ostensibly a legit real estate salesman, Holden is actually the brains of a bookie ring. It takes forever for Ball to tumble to what's going on, but when she does she settles matters in the same fashion as her later I Love Lucy character would--by adopting a ...

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Alvarez Kelly (1966) more movies like this

directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Shaw, Roger C. Carmel

William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head of cattle to the Union forces, Holden is captured by Confederate officer Richard Widmark. Threatened with instant execution if he doesn't cooperate, Holden sets about the train the raw rebel troops to become cattle drovers in order to transport the herd ...

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Texas (1941) more movies like this

directed by George Marshall
featuring William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan

Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona. William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two split up, whereupon Ford takes a job on Joseph ...

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