Sunset Boulevard

A Hollywood Story
Sunset Boulevard
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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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

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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:

Certified Fresh98%

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Total Count: 63

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 53,296
Sunset Boulevard (1950), the blackest of Hollywood's self-portraits, is an old dark house of a ghost story inhabited by the living shadows of its discarded stars. Full Review
Seanax.com
Jan 13, 2017
A coldly brilliant melodrama about a spiderish ex-queen of the movies and the hack writer whom she destroys in her million-dollar web. Gloria Swanson and William Holden are superb in the leading roles. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 9, 2019
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties. Full Review
The Nation
Aug 30, 2012
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. Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Oct 14, 2011
Rating: 5/5 -- Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 22, 2015
...A mordant masterpiece about two victims of self-deception who destroy each other and themselves....The movie is unimprovable...
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 29, 2002

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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  • UPC: 032429258243
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