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I. A. L. Diamond has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Some Like It Hot.
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The Apartment
1960 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Irma la Douce
1963 · Movie · Writer
Top 10%MGM+ · Included

The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Movie · Writer
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

Cactus Flower
1969 · Movie · Writer
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Avanti!
1972 · Movie · Writer
Top 25%MGM+ · Included

Kiss Me, Stupid
1964 · Movie · Writer
Top 25%MGM+ · Included

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin

When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Dir. Gene Saks · With Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill

While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston

When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
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