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Title:

Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / a Paramount Picture ; producer, Charles Brackett ; writers, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr. ; director, Billy Wilder.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Special collector's ed.

Publisher:

Paramount Pictures,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Actors--Drama.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Drama.
Motion picture industry--Drama.
Actors--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films--United States.

Other Authors:

Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969.
Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002.
Marshman, D. M., 1922-
Holden, William, 1918-1981.
Swanson, Gloria.
Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957.
Olson, Nancy, 1928-
Clark, Fred, 1914-1968.
Gough, Lloyd.
Webb, Jack, 1920-1982.
DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959.
Hopper, Hedda, 1890-1966.
Seitz, John F., d. 1979.
Harrison, Doane, d. 1968.
Schmidt, Arthur.
Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967.
Head, Edith.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1950. William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton. Special features: Commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: the life and times of Billy Wilder" ; a 28 min. documentary, Sunset Blvd., a look back (c2002) ; theatrical trailer ; Hollywood location map ; photo galleries ; morgue prologue ; Edith Head - The Paramount Years (featurette) ; The music of Sunset Boulevard (featurette).

Summary:

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, setting tragedy into motion.

Series:

Paramount DVD collection

ISBN:

9780792172864
0792172868

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51102995

UPC:

097360492743

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