Sunset Boulevard Soundtrack

Synopsis: In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end.
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
NOT RATED
Year:
1950
110 min
1,835 Views


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1Farewell1:56
2Norma Desmond2:21
3Old Friends1:29
4The Comeback4:24
5The Corpse1:12
6The Showdown4:16

Charles Brackett

Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder. more…

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