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In advance of its production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Sunset Boulevard,” the Falmouth Theatre Guild is screening the 1950 movie on which the show is based at two free showings at Falmouth Public Library this month. The first screening is Saturday, October 13, at 2 PM. The second screening is Wednesday, October 17, at 7 PM. Tim Miller, a college professor of cinema and the entertainment editor at the Cape Cod Times, will introduce the film at the Saturday screening. The movie, “Sunset Boulevard,” a Hollywood story of love, murder and insanity that is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of American cinema, stars Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Erich von Stroheim. The screenings will take place in the Hermann Foundation Reading Room at Falmouth Public Library, 300 Main Street, Falmouth center.