Sunset Blvd. is a 1950 English-language Drama Film-Noir film written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr. The movie is directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Charles Brackett under the banner of Paramount Pictures. In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sunset blvd. stars William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough and Henry Wilcoxon. The music was composed by Franz Waxman. Cinematography was done by John F. Seitz and editing by Doane Harrison and Arthur Schmidt. The movie has a running time of 110 minutes. It was released on 10th August 1950 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Sunset Blvd. was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Paramount Pictures.