A classic black comedy/drama, and perhaps the most acclaimed, but darkest film-noir story about "behind the scenes" Hollywood, self-deceit, spiritual and spatial emptiness, and the price of fame, greed, narcissism, and ambition.
Caustic and with bitter wit in a story that blends both fact and fiction and dream and reality, Sunset Boulevard exposes the corruptive, devastating influences of the “new” Hollywood and the studio system by showing the decline of old Hollywood legends many years after the coming of sound.
Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It's about five o'clock in the morning. That's the Homicide Squad - complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten thousand block.”
“You'll read about it in the late editions, I'm sure. You'll get it over your radio and see it on television because an old-time star is involved - one of the biggest. But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you'd like to hear the facts, the whole truth. If so, you've come to the right party.”
“ You see, the body of a young man was found floating in the pool of her mansion - with two shots in his back and one in his stomach. Nobody important, really. Just a movie writer with a couple of 'B' pictures to his credit. The poor dope! He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool - only the price turned out to be a little high.”
Starring;
William Holden as Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer
Jack Webb as Artie Green
Cecil B. Demille as himself
Hedda Hopper as herself
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning three; Best Writing, Story, Screenplay, Best Art and Set Direction and Best Music Score.
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