Sunset Boulevard

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Sunset Boulevard - Special Collector's Edition

Gloria Swanson is the aging silent film queen and William Holden the struggling writer who falls into her lair in this bizarre, dark and desperate portrait of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim is magnificent as Swanson's loyal butler and former husband. A number of Hollywood veterans appear as themselves, including Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille, and Hedda Hopper. "Sunset Boulevard remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusion..." Roger Ebert

Selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry of American Film.

DVD

Commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder"
Theatrical trailer(s)
Fully restored "The Making of Sunset Boulevard" (includes interviews with Nancy Olson, Ed Sikov, film critic Andrew Sarris, Paramount producer A.C. Lyles, and Glenn Close)
Photo galleries
Hollywood location map
Script of the original morgue prologue
"The Music of Sunset Boulevard" featurette
"Edith Head: The Paramount Years" (documentary of the famed costume designer)
Closed-captioned

Curator's Comments:
Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Billy Wilder
Black & White
72 minutes
Released: 1950
Rated: NR

Country: U.S.A.
Language: English (closed captioned)
Genre: Drama/Film Noir

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