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An ageing silent-film queen refuses to accept the demise of her career and hires a young screenwriter to help her make a comeback. Winner of three Academy Awards.

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EAN5051368243238

eBay Product ID (ePID)168152372

Product Key Features

ActorNancy Olson, Erich Von Stroheim, Cecil B. Demille, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, Jack Warden, Fred Clark, William Holden

Film/TV TitleSunset Boulevard

DirectorBilly Wilder

Release Year2013

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesSunset Boulevard: The Beginning\Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back\The Noir Side of Sunset Boulevard\Sunset Boulevard Becomes a Classic\Two Sides of Ms. Swanson\Stories of Sunset Boulevard\Mad About the Boy: A Portrait of William Holden\Recording Sunset Boulevard\The City of Sunset Boulevard\Franz Waxman and the Music of Sunset Boulevard\Morgue Prologue Script Pages (HD)\Deleted Scene - The Paramount Don't Want Me Blues (HD)\Hollywood Location Map\Behind the Gates: The Lot\Edith Head: The Paramount Years\Paramount in the '50s\Galleries: Production, The Movie, Publicity\Theatrical Trailer (HD)

GenreDrama, General

Run Time111 Mins

Additional Product Features

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationBilly Wilder's masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, it 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.

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleSunset Boulevard