Sunset Boulevard (The Paramount Centennial Collection)
A Hollywood Story
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 11, 2008
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gloria Swanson, William Holden & Erich von Stroheim | |
Performer: | Jack Webb, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Franklyn Farnum & Charles Dayton | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Doane Harrison & Arthur P. Schmidt | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman & Richard Strauss | |
Cameo: | Buster Keaton, H.B. Warner, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, Anna Q. Nilsson, Jay Livingston & Ray Evans | |
Produced by | Charles Brackett | |
Director of Photography: | John F. Seitz |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup."
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1950 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett & D.M. Marshman, Jr.
Academy Awards 1950 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1950 -
Best Original Score: Franz Waxman
Entertainment Reviews:
These days, it seems like 1950's best movie.
USA Today
...Gloria Swanson gives her greatest performance....The movie cuts close to the bone....SUNSET BOULEVARD remains the best drama ever made about the movies...
Chicago Sun-Times
The conception owes something to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, but the film builds a myth of its own, one that taps into something essential about stardom.
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The Age (Australia)
Norma is something of a living legend, but she's also an unaware ghost: no longer of the world in which she thinks she lives.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 5/5 --
Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
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Time Out
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Billy Wilder's masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of events that left him lying face down in a pool. Unable to sell his most recent chef-d'oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyeballs, Joe stashes his car in the driveway of what appears to be an abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard while trying to elude some persistent repo men. Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Upon hearing that he's a writer, the lonely but still wealthy woman offers to pay him generously to stay at the house and work on her "comeback" script on the life of Salome. Although spooked by the people and the surroundings, in desperate straits, Joe takes the job, little suspecting the madness of the netherworld he's entered. Wilder's merciless portrait of the dangers of a profession that trades in fantasy cagily couples the cynical amorality of the never-was with the near-psychotic narcissism of the has-been to reveal the vacuity of wealth and the transience of fame.
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Sunset Boulevard
Movie Lover: Chris from
West Virginia -- July, 16, 2009
Sunset Boulevard is superbly acted movie, everyone in the cast played the perfect part especially Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. If anyone has not watched this movie I highly recommend it. You will not be disappointed
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