Sunset Boulevard [VHS]

Sunset Boulevard [VHS]
by Billy Wilder

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Actor: Erich von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson, William Holden
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Writer: Billy Wilder
Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Charles Brackett
Writer: D.M. Marshman Jr.
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount

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Movie Review: Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boo-la-vard'
Summary: 5 Stars

Billy Wilder, one of the best filmmakers ever, crafted here one of the best film noirs ever made. Filled to the brim with scathing insight into Hollywood, biting satire, sweeping dramatic arcs, and uncanny resemblance to real life, this is one blistering depiction of a by-gone era that is still as relevant today as it was upon its release in 1950.
Gloria Swanson, a real life former silent film star, plays Nora Desmond, a former silent film star who is living soley on memories and faded dreams from the past. The industry has tossed her aside when films moved into the 'talking' era. William Holden, who in real life was a promising young actor who was on a downslope, plays a burned out promising screenwriter who is on bit of a downslope, broke, running from debt collectors, stumbling into Nora's 'world' literally. He becomes her 'writer' and lover and confidant, and eventual enemy.
Filled with real life film stars from the period, and film director Cecil B. Demille playing himself, this is also a scathing look at the whole inside of the Hollywood industry and the machinisms that are within it.
Hailed by many as a classic, and rightly so, this timeless masterpiece is ripe for discovery for any film fan out there. Brian DePalma used a set piece, the luxurious hotel, in his noir film "The Black Dahlia". Other films have paid homage to this over the years, but none can compare to this...Truly a classic for all to enjoy.
"Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close up"...
Highly recommended!
Thank you...;o)

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Billy Wilder's noir-comic classic about death and decay in Hollywood remains as pungent as ever in its power to provoke shock, laughter, and gasps of astonishment. Joe Gillis (William Holden), a broke and cynical young screenwriter, is attempting to ditch a pair of repo men late one afternoon when he pulls off L.A.'s storied Sunset Boulevard and into the driveway of a seedy mansion belonging to Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a forgotten silent movie luminary whose brilliant acting career withered with the coming of talkies. The demented old movie queen lives in the past, assisted by her devoted (but intimidating) butler, Max (played by Erich von Stroheim, the legendary director of Greed and Swanson's own lost epic, Queen Kelly). Norma dreams of making a comeback in a remake of Salome to be directed by her old colleague Cecil B. DeMille (as himself), and Joe becomes her literary and romantic gigolo. Sunset Blvd. is one of those great movies that has become a part of popular culture (the line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," has entered the language)--but it's no relic. Wow, does it ever hold up. --Jim Emerson

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