Director(s): Billy Wilder

Rating & Run Time: (NR) 1 hour and 50 minutes

Release Year: 1950

In a tale told by a dead man, Billy Wilder’s quintessential film noir portrait of the crumbling dream palace of Old Hollywood is a dark and beautiful look at an ex-starlet’s deluded and insular world in the hills above LA. When a down-on-his-luck screenwriter mistakenly stumbles into her strange world, he finds himself stuck in her narcissistic web before he can find the exit door. Starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, with cameos from silent era greats like Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich Von Stroheim.