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Sunset Blvd.

1950, Movie, NR, 110 mins

Sunset Blvd.: Review

No other motion picture about Hollywood comes near Billy Wilder's searing, uncompromising and utterly fascinating portrait of the film community. William Holden stars as a hack screenwriter who's hired by an aging silent film star (Gloria Swanson) to write her comeback vehicle, but is instead swallowed whole by the demented siren's delusions. Beneath it all is vanity, madness, murder and a twisted obsession with filmdom's past. In a bitter comment on his own career in Hollywood, the great silent director Erich von Stroheim stars as Swanson's butler. Read the complete review for Sunset Blvd.

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Year: 1950
Rated NR

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Cast
William Holden: Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson: Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim: Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson: Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark: Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough: Morino

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