Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / [presented by] Paramount Pictures ; producer, Charles Brackett ; writers, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr. ; director Billy Wilder
Contributor(s): Brackett, Charles | Wilder, Billy | Marshman, D. M | Holden, William | Swanson, Gloria | Von Stroheim, Erich | Olson, Nancy | Clark, Fred | Gough, Lloyd | Webb, Jack | Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Series: Paramount DVD collection: Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2002], c1950Edition: Special collector's ed. ; Full screen version.Description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 9780792172864; 9780792183433; 0792172868.Subject(s): Actors and actresses -- Drama | Motion picture industry in motion picturesDDC classification: 791.4372Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 791.4372 SUN 2002 (Browse shelf) | DVD Video | 1 | Available | SLASx,05000,01,GR | 1000525457 |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
Special features: Commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: the life and times of Billy Wilder" ; the making of Sunset Boulevard ; theatrical trailer ; Hollywood location map ; photo galleries ; morgue prologue ; Edith Head - The Paramount Years featurette ; the music of Sunset Boulevard Featurette.
Cinematographer, John F. Seitz ; editors, Doane Harrison, Arthur Schmidt ; music, Franz Waxman ; costume designer, Edith Head.
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him in a scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie.
DVD, Doby digital mono, Region 1 encoding
English or French dialogue; Closed-captioned