Sunset Blvd.
- Year:
- 2012
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Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.
It's about 5:
00 in the morning.That's the homicide squad...
complete with detectives
and newspapermen.
A murder has been reported from
one of those great big houses...
in the ten thousand block.
You'll read about it
in the late editions, I'm sure.
You'll get it over your radio
and see it on television...
because an old-time star is
involved... one of the biggest.
But before you hear it all distorted
and blown out of proportion...
before those Hollywood columnists
maybe you'd like to hear the facts...
the whole truth.
If so, you've come
to the right party.
You see, the body of a young man
was found...
floating in the pool
of her mansion...
with two shots in his back
and one in his stomach.
Nobody important, really.
Just a movie writer with a couple
of B pictures to his credit.
The poor dope.
Well, in the end
he got himself a pool...
only the price turned out to be
a little high.
Let's go back about six months and
find the day when it all started.
I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and Ivar.
Things were tough at the moment.
I hadn't worked in a studio
for a long time.
So I sat there, grinding out
original stories, two a week.
Only I seemed to have lost my touch.
Maybe they weren't original enough.
Maybe they were too original.
All I know is,
they didn't sell.
Yeah?
- Joseph C. Gillis?
- That's right.
We've come for the car.
What car?
California license 40-R-116.
Where are the keys?
Why should I give you the keys?
Because the company's
played ball long enough...
because you're three payments behind,
and because we got a court order.
Now, come on. The keys.
Or do you want us to jack it up
and haul it away?
Relax, fans.
The car isn't here.
Oh, is that so?
I loaned it to a friend.
He took it down to Palm Springs.
Had to get away for his health,
I suppose.
If you don't believe me,
look in the garage.
Sure, sure, we believe you.
Only now we want you to believe us!
That car better be here tomorrow
or there's gonna be fireworks.
- You say the cutest things.
- Ha.
and I needed it real quick,
or I'd lose my car.
It wasn't in Palm Springs,
and it wasn't in the garage.
I was way ahead
of the finance company.
I knew they'd be coming around,
and I wasn't taking any chances.
So I kept it across the street in a
lot behind Rudy's Shoeshine Parlor.
Rudy never asked any questions
about your finances.
He'd just look at your heels
and know the score.
I had an original story
kicking around Paramount.
My agent told me it was
dead as a doornail.
But I knew a big shot over there
The time had come to take
His name was Sheldrake.
He was a smart producer
with a set of ulcers to prove it.
All right, Gillis, you've got five
minutes. What's your story about?
a rookie shortstop batting.347.
- Uh-huh.
- Poor kid was mixed up in a holdup.
But he's trying to go straight.
Except some gamblers won't let him.
So they tell the kid he's got to
throw the World Series or else, huh?
More or less, except for the end.
I've got a gimmick that's real good.
Uh-huh. You got a title?
Bases Loaded.
There's a 40-page outline.
Call Readers Department. Find out
what they have on Bases Loaded.
They're pretty hot about it over at
Twentieth, except Zanuck's all wet.
Can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?
You've got the best man for it
right here on this lot. Alan Ladd.
Be a good change of pace for Ladd.
Another thing, it's simple to shoot.
Lots of outdoor stuff. You could
make it all for under a million.
- Excuse me.
- A great part for Bill Demarest...
a trainer, an old-time player who
got beaned, goes out of his head.
Hello, Mr. Sheldrake.
On that Bases Loaded, I covered it
with a two-page synopsis.
- Thank you.
- But I wouldn't bother.
- What's wrong with it?
- It's from hunger.
Nothing for Ladd?
It's just a rehash of something
that wasn't very good to begin with.
I'm sure you'll be glad to meet
Mr. Gillis. He wrote it.
This is Miss Kramer.
The name is Schaefer.
Betty Schaefer.
Right now I wish I could crawl
in a hole and pull it in after me.
If I could be of any help...
Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I
just didn't think it was any good.
I found it flat and trite.
Exactly what kind of material do you
recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?
I just think that pictures
should say a little something.
Oh, one of the message kids.
Just a story won't do.
You'd have turned down
Gone With the Wind.
No, that was me. I said, "Who wants
to see a Civil War picture?"
Perhaps I hated it because
I'd always heard you had talent.
That was last year. This year
I'm trying to earn a living.
So you take plot 27-A,
make it glossy, make it slick...
Those are dirty words.
You sound like New York critics.
- That's all, Miss Kramer... Schaefer.
- Good-bye, Mr. Gillis.
Next time I'll write you
The Naked and the Dead.
Well, it seems like Zanuck
has got himself a baseball picture.
I don't want you to think I thought
this would win any Academy Award.
Of course, we're always
looking for a Betty Hutton.
- Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?
- Frankly, no.
Wait. If we made it a girls'
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