Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
A Hollywood Story
Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Language: English
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Duration: 110
Rated: 8.7/10
DVD Release: November 2012
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
William Holden | Joe Gillis |
Gloria Swanson | Norma Desmond |
Erich von Stroheim | Max Von Mayerling |
Nancy Olson | Betty Schaefer |
Fred Clark | Sheldrake |
Lloyd Gough | Morino |
Jack Webb | Artie Green |
Franklyn Farnum | Undertaker |
Larry J. Blake | 1st Finance Man (as Larry Blake) |
Charles Dayton | 2nd Finance Man |
Cecil B. DeMille | Cecil B. DeMille (as Cecil B. De Mille) |
Hedda Hopper | Hedda Hopper |
Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton |
Anna Q. Nilsson | Anna Q. Nilsson |
H.B. Warner | H. B. Warner |
Genre: Drama, Film Noir
Media: Blu-ray
Sound: Dolby TrueHD
IMDb: 0043014