Sunset Boulevard | Sunset Blvd. |
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En dag under en flugt fra sine kreditorer gemmer den unge manuskriptforfatter Joe Gillis sig i en garage til et palæ på Sunset Boulevard. Her møder Joe den tilbagetrukne stumfilmstjerne Norma Desmond, der vil hyre Joe til at renskrive et comeback, hun har arbejdet på i flere år. Den kyniske og opportunistiske Joe siger ja til det håbløse projekt og er snart fuldstændig i hænderne på Norma. Alt imens følger Normas chauffør Max Von Mayerling tavst begivenhederne fra sidelinien.
Beskrivelse: [ Dansk Engelsk ]
Billy Wilder's masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, it stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of events that left him lying face down in a pool. Unable to sell his most recent chef-d'oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyeballs, Joe stashes his car in the driveway of what appears to be an abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard, while trying to elude some persistent repo men. Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond, and her zombie-like manservant Max. Upon hearing that he's a writer, the lonely but still wealthy woman offers to pay him generously to stay at the house and work on her 'comeback' script on the life of Salome. Although spooked by the people and the surroundings, in desperate straits, Joe takes the job, little suspecting the madness of the netherworld he's entered. Wilder's merciless portrait of the dangers of a profession that trades in fantasy, cagily couples the cynical amorality of the never-was with the near-psychotic narcissism of the has-been to reveal the vacuity of wealth and the transience of fame.
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Billy Wilder
Skuespillere:
Anna Q. Nilsson
Archie R. Dalzell
Buster Keaton
Cecil B. DeMille
Charles Dayton
Erich von Stroheim
Franklyn Farnum
Fred Aldrich
Fred Clark
Gertrude Astor
Gloria Swanson
H.B. Warner
Hedda Hopper
Jack Warden
Jack Webb
Jay Livingston
Joel Allen
John Cortay
Ken Christy
Larry J. Blake
Lloyd Gough
Nancy Olson
Ray Evans
Ruth Clifford
William Holden
Producent:
Charles Brackett
Forfatter:
Billy Wilder
Charles Brackett
D.M. Marshman Jr.
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Tilladt fra 15 år.
