25 October 2024 – Sunset Boulevard
1950 Drama RUNTIME: 110 mins DIRECTOR: Billy Wilde IMDb: 8.4
STARRING: William Holden; Gloria Swanson; Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis:
Desperate for cash, screenwriter, Joe Gillis, has a chance meeting with faded silent film star, Norma Desmond, who lives in her crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion with only her butler to keep her company. She has become a sad, recluse convinced that the outside world still wants and needs her dramatic return to the screen. Enticing him with the prospect of script work, Ms Desmond puts Joe up in her mansion and he becomes ever more involved and entangled in her life.