# Viale del tramonto (1950)

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**Original title**: *Sunset Boulevard*
**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Billy Wilder
**Written by**: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr.
**Starring**: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough

> *A Hollywood Story.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A deserted mansion on Sunset Boulevard, autumn leaves blowing, a faded starlet's pool. A faded actress and a young screenwriter form a complicated bond over a potential comeback script. Wilder's lens frames a bleak Hollywood underbelly.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cerebral, dread

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.4/10 (260869 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 94/100

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