Fedora

  • Drama
  • Mystery
6/29/1978
114
PG

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

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$6,727,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    Perhaps not one of Billy Wilder's most famous of films, but this penultimate effort is certainly one of his more intriguing. The story is told starting from the moment of the death of the actress "Fedora" (Marthe Keller) and so it is basically about the circumstances that led to her being hit by a train (suicide/accident?). William Holden ("Dutch Detweiler") has seen better days as an Hollywood producer, and so determines to try and lure the legendary star from her reclusive existence in her Greek villa; surrounded by a rather acolytic coterie as obsessed with their own interests as with those of the actress; and at points we are not quite sure of the extent to which her housebound existence is entirely voluntary. Hildegard Knef ("The Count...

    June 4, 2023

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