Sunset Boulevard
1950
DVD
Gloria Swanson gives a career-defining performance as faded silent screen star Norma Desmond in director Billy Wilder's dark and masterful film classic, "Sunset Boulevard." William Holden is Joe Gillis, the young, down-on-his-luck screenwriter whom Norma drafts to help provide her with a workable script for her planned "return" to the modern-day screen. Erich von Stroheim is Max von Mayerling, Norma's devoted servant and chauffeur, who harbors a few personal revelations of his own. Hollywood has never taken a more ominous, compelling or electrifying look at Hollywood than in this brilliant, Oscar®-winning tour de force that still mesmerizes with it's witty, sardonic script, unforgettable cast, and provocative storyline.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 0792183436
- 0792172868
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (110 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 1.0
- full screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Other Title:
- Sunset Blvd
- Sunset Blvd. (Motion picture)
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
- Special features: Sunset Boulevard : the beginning; The noir side of Sunset Boulevard ; Sunset Boulevard becomes a classic ; Two sides of Ms. Swanson ; Stories of Sunset Boulevard ; Mad about the boy: a portrait of William Holden ; Recording Sunset Boulevard ; The city of Sunset Boulevard ; Morgue prologue script pages ; The score of Sunset Boulevard ; Behind the gates: the lot ; Hollywood location map ; Paramount in the '50s: Retrospective featurette ; Edith Head: the Paramount years ; original theatrical trailer ; galleries; commentary by Ed Sikov.
- Title from container.
- Number of discs may vary.
- Director of photography, John F. Seitz ; editor, Arthur Schmidt ; music score, Franz Waxman.
- William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 1.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in English, French, Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, captions in English.
- Academy Awards, 1951: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
- National Film Registry selection, 1989
Contents:
- Disc 1. Sunset Blvd.
- Disc 2. Bonus disc.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 2065060
- 13898
Control Number: 3415608
UPC:
- 032429258243
- 032429260567
- 883929306688
- 097360492743
- 097360492774
Subjects:
- Actresses -- Drama.
- Ageism -- United States -- Drama.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Drama.
- Leading ladies (Actresses) -- Drama.
- Motion picture industry -- Drama.
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969, producer, screenwriter.
- Clark, Fred, 1914-1968, actor.
- DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959, actor.
- Gough, Lloyd, actor.
- Holden, William, 1918-1981, actor.
- Hopper, Hedda, 1885-1966, actor.
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, actor.
- Marshman, D. M., Jr., 1922-2015, screenwriter.
- Olson, Nancy, 1928- actor.
- Paramount Pictures Corporation, film distributor.
- Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983, actor.
- Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957, actor.
- Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967, composer.
- Webb, Jack, 1920-1982, actor.
- Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, film director, screenwriter.