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Sunset Boulevard (1950)  link to Sunset Boulevard on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 1377

poster Sunset Boulevard

IMDb Rating:
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8.5/10 (156077 votes)

Country: USA, 110 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director(s): Paul Schrader

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end.

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Cast:

photo William Holden William Holden Joe Gillis
photo Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson Norma Desmond
photo Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim Max Von Mayerling
photo Nancy Olson Nancy Olson Betty Schaefer
photo Fred Clark Fred Clark Sheldrake

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: F:\Films\Sunset Boulevard\Sunset Boulevard.mkv

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3