Auringonlaskun katu was released in the year 1950。Auringonlaskun katu is also called as Sunset Blvd., Alkony sugárút, A Can of Beans, Ocaso de una vida, Crepúsculo dos Deuses, Boulevard du crépuscule, Sunset Boulevard。

Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him.

Auringonlaskun katu actors and actresses include Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson, Hedda Hopper, Jack Webb, Nancy Olson。