Sunset Boulevard
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: April 25, 2017
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gloria Swanson, William Holden & Erich von Stroheim | |
Performer: | Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, 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: | Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, Ray Evans & Jay Livingston | |
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:
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
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Time Out
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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The Nation
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)
[Gloria Swanson] proves that in the years she has been off the screen she has lost none of her glamour, the magnetism that made her an outstanding personality of the early Hollywood days.
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Houston Chronicle
Rating: A+ --
[VIDEO ESSAY] Billy Wilder's deft weaving of gothic elements, not the least of which is Nora's decrepit mansion, casts a spell from which Joe is unable to break free. He, like the audience, is stuck in a terrible place awaiting an equally frightful fate.
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ColeSmithey.com
...They rate a nod for daring, as well as credit for an all-around filmmaking job that, disregarding the unpleasant subject matter, is a standout.
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Variety
...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
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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