Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise. Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Upon learning Joe's profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. More melodramatic than funny, the screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett began life as a comedy about a has-been silent movie actress and the ambitious screenwriter who leeches off her.


STARS.........: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
DIRECTOR......: Billy Wilder
WRITERS.......: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
GENRE.........: Drama
RATING........: 8.5/10  141,630 votes
IMDB link.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014
RUNTIME.......: 1h 50mn
SIZE..........: 4.16 GiB
VIDEO CODEC...: x264 ([email protected])
RESOLUTION....: 1476x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.37:1
BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (3-Pass)
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1........: English E-AC3 2.0 Mono 320 Kbps
AUDIO2........: Commentary with author Ed Sikov
SOURCE........: Untouched Blu Ray
SUBTITLES.....: ENG, ENG-SDH, ARA, DAN, FRE, PER, POR, SPA  
CHAPTERS......: Yes
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2016-10-14



This is a new rip without grain stabilization... looks much more film-like. The extras are the same.



Full Blu Ray Extras included