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Sunset Boulevard [1950]

starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date April 07, 2003
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

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Jean Renoir Collection [1998]

starring: Jean Gabin, Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Louis Barrault
directed by: Jean Renoir

Release Date June 04, 2007
Unlike LionsGate's Region 1 Renoir boxed set, this doesn't include Renoir's first two silent features (La femme de L'eau and Nana), but offers a fine overview of the director's established classics and some less well remembered films from the beginning and end of his career.

Made with film stock left over from the production of Nana, 1927's Sur un Air de Charleston is described as a holiday film for all concerned, and that's the best way to view it. Jean Renoir seems never to have thought enough of it to even edit the footage together. The plot is a simple reversion of racial stereotypes - in 2028 a black explorer travels to a post-holocaust Paris where a white native girl teaches him the Charleston (naturally ... Read More:

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Sunset Boulevard - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) [1950]

starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date July 23, 2007
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

CD-Charts Position 4
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Sunset Boulevard [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date November 11, 2008
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

CD-Charts Position 5
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The Great Gabbo [1929]

starring: Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie "Babe" Kane, Erich Von Stroheim, Helen Kane
directed by: James Cruze

Release Date May 31, 2005
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

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Foolish Wives [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Erich von Stroheim
directed by: Erich von Stroheim

Release Date January 27, 2004
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

CD-Charts Position 7
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The Great Flamarion [1945]

starring: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay, Lester Allen
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date January 31, 2006
The Great Flamarion might be a poverty row knock-off of Scarlet Street, but it has much to offer to those fond of noirs and who like effective performances from unexpected sources. In Mexico City in 1936 at a second-string variety act theater, shots ring out in the middle of a clown act. The performers congregate back stage, the audience starts to panic and a clown tries to convince everyone to take their seats...that nothing has happened and everything is under control. We learn that a woman who was part of a bicycle act has been strangled and her husband is the chief suspect. But what were the gunshots for? Why did we see in the shadows a figure in a greatcoat and hat struggle to climb the stairs to the catwalk? Why has he hidden himself? We find out ... Read More:

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The Grand Illusion [1998]

starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
directed by: Jean Renoir

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Good choice if you understand french or german. There are no subtitles so the product info is wrong!

CD-Charts Position 9
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Five Graves to Cairo

starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date December 13, 2006
This WWII movie is an unexpected delight, although coming from Billy Wilder the unexpected should be expected. The action in Five Graves to Cairo takes place in a flea-bitten, mud-brick hotel on the edge of the North African desert. It's 1942 and Tobruk has fallen. Rommel and the Afrika Corps are driving toward Cairo and the only thing that can stop them is a lack of supplies. The English are worried. The Egyptians are testing the wind. And Rommel seems to be supremely confident. "We shall take that big cigar from Churchill's mouth and make him say 'Heil'!" he says with a smirk. He has reason to be confident. "It's not the supplies which reach us," he says. "It's us who reach the supplies...thousands and thousands of gallons of petrol..." and water, ammunition ... Read More:

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Grand Illusion [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
directed by: Jean Renoir

Release Date November 16, 1999
Good choice if you understand french or german. There are no subtitles so the product info is wrong!