CRITERION COLLECTION: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell Of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell Of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.
• Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene, Joe Frisco, Barbara Nichols, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, The Chico Hamilton Quintet, Nick Adams, Jay Adler, Lewis Charles, Buddy Clark, Lawrence Dobkin, John Fiedler, Bess Flowers, William Forrest, Robert Fuller, Joe Gray, Chico Hamilton, James Hill, Paul Horn, Fred Katz, Joseph Leon, Thomas Martin, Clifford Odets, Jane Ross, Autumn Russell, Carson Smith, Queenie Smith, Arthur Tovey, Lurene Tuttle, Harry Tyler, Philip Van Zandt, David White, Alexander Mackendrick, Ernest Lehman
• Director: Alexander Mackendrick
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: United Artists, Norma-Curtleigh Productions
• Media Format: Movie