Name a film directed by Billy Wilder: rare answers

Answering “Name a film directed by Billy Wilder”? Our list has 26 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment only score 10. Deep cuts such as Five Graves to Cairo, The Spirit of St. Louis and The Major and the Minor score 85 points.

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Accepted answers
26
Category
Movies
Deep answers (85–100 pts)
7 (27%)
Alternate spellings accepted
None needed
First letters
13 different; S is the most common (6)
  • 🦑 Midnight Zone: 7 answers (27%), 85 pts each
  • 🐠 Twilight Zone: 8 answers (31%), 60 pts each
  • 🐟 Sunlit Zone: 8 answers (31%), 30 pts each
  • 🌊 Surface: 3 answers (12%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

This list has no Abyssal tier, so the Midnight Zone is as deep as it goes: Five Graves to Cairo, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Major and the Minor and Buddy Buddy and 3 more, worth 85 points each.

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Five Graves to Cairo, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Major and the Minor, Buddy Buddy, The Emperor Waltz, Fedora, Mauvaise Graine

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

One, Two, Three, The Lost Weekend, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti!, The Front Page, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me, Stupid, A Foreign Affair

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Sabrina, Witness for the Prosecution, Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Ace in the Hole, Stalag 17, Love in the Afternoon, Irma la Douce

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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