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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 (Gloria Swanson), and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). 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.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Ed Sikov - Author of ON SUNSET BOULEVARD: THE LIFE
AND TIMES OF BILLY WILDER Trailer - 1. Theatrical Featurettes - 1. EDITH HEAD - THE PARAMOUNT YEARS









2. THE MUSIC OF SUNSET BOULEVARD









3. Making OfInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Hollywood Location Map Photo Galleries Morgue Prologue Script Pages
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In NIGHT AND THE CITY, director Jules Dassin brilliantly fuses two styles of filmmaking, crossing the expressionist lighting and framing of film noir with the almost documentary location shooting he used for THE NAKED CITY (1948). Dassin treats NIGHT AND THE CITY's central London locations as strange exotic places. As the movie opens, it is nighttime and small-time hood Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is running from almost unseen pursuers. Harry crosses in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Dassin shows this familiar tourist sight from a very high angle, then immediately juxtaposes a shot of Harry escaping through bombed-out ruins. While Dassin and director of photography Max Greene shoot exteriors from high angles or from cramped doorways, they shoot interiors from low angles catching their actors against heavily contrasted backgrounds. The result is a movie full of diamond-sharp, angst-ridden visuals.NIGHT AND THE CITY is built round the dynamic febrile performance of Richard Widmark as the constantly scheming, ever-overreaching Harry. Herbert Lom is brilliant as the Greek who ruthlessly controls wrestling in London. Francis L. Sullivan, huge and slow moving, exudes menace as nightclub owner Phil Nosseross. And Googie Withers is very striking as Nosseross's smart but desperate wife.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Monaural - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Glenn Erickson - Film Scholar Production Interviews - 1. Jules Dassin - Director
















2. Excerpts From A 1972 French Interview With Jules Dassin Featurette - 1. Two Versions, Two Scores -
A Look At The British And American Scores Composed For The Film Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Photo Galleries: Film Essay By Film Critic Paul Arthur
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Suspicions are on alert when the disappearance of a high-tech laser device used in nuclear submarines is discovered. The situation escalates between two superpowers in neutral Sweden, and an investigator (Dennis Hopper) is hired to find the laser and the culprit. Based on an actual terrifying event.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingJewel Case
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A reporter goes undercover as a stripper to expose a psychotic murderer.
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Features two movies on one DVD. In LOLA, a middle-aged writer falls in love with a 16-year old English nymphet. Boasting a strong performance from Charles Bronson as the writer. In THE WITNESS, a young boy who has witnessed the crime for which his father is being wrongly accused attempts to free his father.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CasePan& Scan - 1.33
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