SUNSET BOULEVARD  Billy Wilder's classic tale of Hollywood
misfortune and swimming pools is where Gumbo has us this week. Once again we're
challenging each other to hop on our '10' train as we Queue up movies we deem
to be utterly fantastic!

Here’s what you have…In
Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis (William
Holden) 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 front of a
crumbling decadent mansion on Sunset Boulevard, owned by former silent-movie
star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who lives alone with her butler Max. Norma
is demented, and believes she will return to the cinema industry and escape the
isolated world she has built for herself. Norma proposes Joe to move to the
mansion and help her in writing a screenplay that will propel her inevitable
comeback – but as things settle in, the small time writer find himself the eye
of her affection, and when he falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty
Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane – which leads to her
madness as well as a tragic end. Listen to find out whether or not we follow
suit on Gumbo’s ‘10’… That and our “Top 3 Movie Butlers”