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Cast

Directed by Blake Edwards
Written by Rodney Amateau

DVD

Released 8/25/98, Region 1

Audio: English, Spanish, French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Scene Selections
More Bruce Willis
Side A: Widescreen 1.85:1, Side B: Full Screen

Chapter Index

1. Start

2. Tom Mix

3. Wyatt Earp

4. The Way it was

5. Chief Dibner

6. Mrs. Alperin

7. The Candy Store

8. Murdered

9. Comforting Cheryl

10. Captain Blackworth

11. Lunch with Alfie

12. In the Commissary

13. Three's a Crowd

14. "Candy's My Mother."

15. At Victoria's

16. Out Cold?

17. Alfie & Victoria

18. El Coyote

19. To the Rescue

20. Saving Nancy

21. The Funeral

22. In Jail

23. Safety Deposit Box

24. In Hospital

25. The Happy HoBo

26. Lobby Shoot-out

27. Getting Alfie

28. Happy Trails

Filming Locations (USA)

• Malibu Lake, CA

• Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, CA

• Bullocks Wilshire, CA for Academy Awards presentation

• Culver City, CA

• Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

• Indian Dunes

• Melody Ranch - 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, CA

• San Pedro Harbor

• David O. Selznick's office on the Culver Studios lot

• Orange Empire Railroad Museum, Perris, CA

Formats

VHS-PAL + NTSC / LD / DVD R1+R2

Liner Notes

    When Blake Edwards first decided to adapt Rod Amateau's Hollywood mystery novel Sunset to the screen, he knew whom he wanted to play Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix, the film's two larger-than-life heroes.
    Edwards: "I wanted James Garner as Earp and Robert Duvall in the Tom Mix role. But as great as those two actors are, I couldn't raise any kind of money that I needed to make the movie with that cast. So about the time that I saw my original idea wasn't going to work, Bruce Willis' agent read Sunset and he saw that is would be an interesting character for Bruce. I agreed and so did TriStar, which had a deal with Bruce."
    Production began on April 6, 1987. As Sunset took place in a Hollywood that no longer existed, Edwards and cinematographer Tony Richmond were forced to recreate the late 1920s time period on numerous locations throughout Los Angeles County.
    Richmond: "We did the exterior of the Kit Kat Klub brothel at Malibu Lake. We used the Malibu Lake Club up in Malibu Canyon - we dressed the outside with a couple of awnings. Although we were able to shoot the Oscar ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where they held the first Academy Awards presentation, we used the back entrance of Bullocks Wilshire because it had a more art deco feel to it. One of the biggest setting we had to recreate was the Pasadena train station, which we shot at an antique railroad museum just outside of Riverside in a place called Perris."
    Additional shooting site included Indian Dunes (the Alperin Studios' Western backlot), San Pedro Harbor and David O. Selznick's office on the Culver Studios lot (Alfie Alperin's office.)
    Sunset opened on April 29, 1988, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design. A loving recreation of Hollywood's fabled past, Sunset  is the "true story" of how two Western legends teamed up to make a movie, raise some hell and solve a murder...give or take a lie or two.

Notes

• Released April 29, 1988 by TriStar Pictures

• 107 minutes

• Opening Weekend $2,031,678 on 1,023 Screens. Final Gross $4,594,452

• 1989 Nominated for an Oscar in Best Costume Design - Patricia Norris

• 1989 Won a Razzie Award for Worst Director - Blake Edwards Tied, Nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress - Mariel Hemingway

• Sunset: Dämmerung in Hollywood (Germany) 

Pictures

DVD Cover - Front
DVD Cover - Back

Soundtrack

Score by Henry Mancini
"Black And Tan Fantasy" Performed by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Summary - Official

    Bruce Willis and James Garner are out to make a movie and solve a murder a Blake Edwards film Sunset, the fictional adventures of America's greatest real-life heroes. Willis (The Fifth Element, Die Hard) stars as Tom Mix - Hollywood's hottest action hero who's been cast to play the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Trouble is, Earp (Garner, Twilight, Maverick) has been hired to work as a technical expert on the the film - and this doesn't sit too well with the big at-the-top-of-his-career movie star Mix. Even worse...Earp doesn't take too well to movie moguls and the fancy studio life, So, the Old West and the new Hollywood collide and inadvertently become a vivid backdrop for one of the most shocking murder mysteries ever to scorch the silver screen. Come back to a lost time when movies were movies, murders were mayhem and heroes were just plain outrageous, in Sunset...the action packed adventure this side of Hollywood and Vine. It's the truth, every word of it...give or take a lie or two!

Tagline

They broke every rule, loved every woman, took every risk and solved the most shocking murder in the history of Beverly Hills. And it's all true. Give or take a lie or two.

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