Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

(Paramount, 1950) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 26 November 2002

by Marc Acherman

Sunset Boulevard is the best gothic film never made by Alfred Hitchcock. It still resonates as a comment upon our obsession with celebrity and the price that obsession exacts upon our lives and the lives of those we perpetually idolize and, on occasion, have forgotten entirely.
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