Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Drama • 1h 50m
Overview
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Fred Aldrich, Joel Allen, Gertrude Astor, Anne Bauchens, Edward Biby, Danny Borzage, Ken Christy, Ruth Clifford, John Cortay, Archie R. Dalzell, Eddie Dew, Julia Faye, Al Ferguson, Gerry Ganzer, Rudy Germane, Kenneth Gibson, Creighton Hale, Chuck Hamilton, Len Hendry, E. Mason Hopper, Stan Johnson, Tiny Jones, Howard Joslin, Arthur Lane, Perc Launders, William Meader, Gertrude Messinger, Harold Miller, Howard Negley, John 'Skins' Miller, Lee Miller, Ralph Montgomery, Bert Moorhouse, Jay Morley, Eva Novak, Frank O'Connor, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Jack Perrin, Sidney Skolsky, Emmett Smith, Archie Twitchell, Yvette Vickers, Henry Wilcoxon, James Hawley, Bernice Mosk, Virginia L. Randolph, Bill Sheehan, Roy Thompson, Jack Warden, Finn Zirzow
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3/2/2026
Best English-Friendly Release
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray
Best Video Release
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
To
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice
From
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
To
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice
3/2/2026
Best Audio Release
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray is nice but noise-gated mono & new5.1
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the BD mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray is nice but noise-gated mono & new5.1
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the BD mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.
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The 5.1 remix on the UHD is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the BD master.
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The 5.1 remix on the UHD is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the BD master.
1/29/2026
12/24/2025
Best Video Release
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps https://slow.pics/c/BYKTnZrf?canvas-mode=fit-width HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion DNR: inconsistent, frozen
To
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
From
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps https://slow.pics/c/BYKTnZrf?canvas-mode=fit-width HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion DNR: inconsistent, frozen
To
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
10/14/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
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Paramount UHD.
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Paramount UHD.
8/10/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount UHD.
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount UHD.
Best Video Release
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps https://slow.pics/c/BYKTnZrf?canvas-mode=fit-width HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion DNR: inconsistent, frozen
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps https://slow.pics/c/BYKTnZrf?canvas-mode=fit-width HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Best Audio Release
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray is nice but noise-gated mono & new5.1
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray is nice but noise-gated mono & new5.1
4/16/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
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Paramount BD
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount BD
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
Best Video Release
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Paramount BD
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
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Paramount BD
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Paramount BD. UHD incoming.
12/15/2024
Best Video Release
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Paramount, not sure if same 4k transfer
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Paramount BD
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Paramount, not sure if same 4k transfer
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Paramount BD
