We write these words in the humble awareness that they, not of their own right but because of the subject, will be studied years hence when the pundits of the screen set themselves the task of analyzing the durability and greatness of Sunset Boulevard. All their previous and distinguished work seems now to be but dress rehearsals for this triumph of motion picture craftsmanship.Ī review invariable fails the measure of a great motion picture, and in the instance of Sunset Boulevard this is particularly true.

That this completely original work is so marvelous, satisfying, dramatically perfect, and technically brilliant is no haphazard Hollywood miracle but the inevitable consequence of the collaboration of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The propriety or inequity of this situation is not the province of a review except to illustrate that when a picture comes along in which every element of the production (script, technical accomplishments, performances, and direction) is woven into a natural fulfillment of the motion picture art, a Sunset Boulevard can be the marvelous and satisfying result. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review, titled “‘Sunset Boulevard’ Ranks Among All Time Greats,” is below:Ī mass entertainment medium is seldom willing or able to support pure creative effort. The film went on to earn 11 nominations at the 23rd Academy Awards, winning in the art direction, music and writing categories. On August 10, 1950, Paramount’s Billy Wilder-directed drama Sunset Boulevard premiered in New York.

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