Stalag 17 (1953)
Billy Wilder’s 1953 WWII POW camp drama. William Holden won Best Actor. Source for Hogan’s Heroes. The German camp informer.
William Holden
This archive gathers the films featuring William Holden reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Network (1976)”, “Stalag 17 (1953)”, “Sunset Boulevard (1950)”, and “The Horse Soldiers (1959)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how William Holden serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Network (1976)
Sidney Lumet’s 1976 TV news satire. Paddy Chayefsky screenplay. Peter Finch’s I’m mad as hell speech. Predictive and ferocious.
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Wilder’s 1950 Hollywood gothic. Holden as a screenwriter, Swanson as the silent star who refuses to fade. Narrated by a corpse from a swimming pool.
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford’s only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union…