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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

Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Production: Paramount Pictures

Won 3 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 18 nominations.


IMDB:: 8.5
Rotten Tomatoes:: 98%

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Year:: 1950
: 110 min
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GILLIS:
Yeah.
The buzzer SOUNDS again. Gillis gets up and opens
the door. Two men wearing hats stand outside one of
them carrying a briefcase.
NO. 1
Joseph C. Gillis?
GILLIS:
That's right.
The men ease into the room. No. 1 hands Gillis a
business card.
NO. 1
We've come for the car.
GILLIS:
What car?
NO. 2
(Consulting a paper)
1946 Plymouth convertible. Calif-
ornia license 97 N 567.
NO. 1
Where are the keys?
GILLIS:
Why should I give you the keys?
NO. 1
Because the company's played ball
with you long enough. Because
you're three payments behind. And
because we've got a Court order.
Come on -- the keys.
NO. 2
Or do you want us to jack it up
and haul it away?
GILLIS:
Relax, fans. The car isn't here.
NO. 1
Is that So?
GILLIS:
I lent it to a friend of mine.
He took it up to Palm Springs.
NO. 1
Had to get away for his health,
I suppose.
GILLIS:
You don't believe me? Look in
the garage.
NO. 1
Sure we believe you, only now we
want you to believe us. That car
better be back here by noon tomorrow,
or there's going to be fireworks.
GILLIS:
You say the cutest things.

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