Product Information
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.Product Identifiers
EAN5014437806635
eBay Product ID (ePID)30049847
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
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Croatian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Romanian\Serbian\Slovenian\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time105 Mins
Aspect RatioFull Screen
Release Year2003
FormatDVD
FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, Commentary By Ed Sikov\The Making Of Sunset Boulevard\Theatrical Trailer\Hollywood Location Map\Photo Galleries\Original Morgue Prologue Script Pages\Edith Head The Paramount Years Featurette\The Music Of Sunset Boulevard Featurette, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
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.
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Sound sourceMono
Movie/TV TitleSunset Boulevard