Double Feature: SUNSET BOULEVARD & STALAG 17 July 22, 2010

Double Feature: SUNSET BOULEVARD, 1950, Paramount, 110 min. Director Billy Wilder created one of his most enduring masterpieces in this dark, glittering poison pen letter to all things Hollywood, told in flashback by murdered screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), whose final job is playing paid-companion to egocentric, aging silent film goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).

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STALAG 17, 1953, Paramount, 120 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. William Holden, a sergeant with mercenary instincts, is gradually suspected by fellow WWII POWs of being a traitor. Director Otto Preminger co-stars as the camp's Prussian commandant. With Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Richard Erdman.

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