Sunset Boulevard

Name: Sunset Boulevard
Genre: Drama
Released: 1950-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8.3

About Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 drama film directed by Billy Wilder. Released in August 1950, it runs 110 minutes.

Its themes are film noir, hollywood, tragic, and powerful.

William Holden takes the lead as Joe Gillis, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling, and Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer. The screenplay is by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Produced by Paramount Pictures. In the United States it streams on Kanopy and MGM Plus.

Mulholland Drive, The Substance, and Raging Bull make useful companions to Sunset Boulevard, all filed under loss of sense of reality and has been. TMDB voters put it at 8.3 out of 10 across 3,090 votes and it carries a NR rating.