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1. • • The film features a classic jazz score by Elmer Bernstein, and James Wong Howe ’s stark black-and-white cinematography won high acclaim. Although a critical success, the movie was a box-office disappointment.
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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Sweet Smell of Success, American film noir, released in 1957, that was praised for its intensity, intelligent dialogue, and searing look at corruption in big-city journalism.

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   • Sweet Smell of Success was based on the short story “Tell Me About It Tomorrow” by Ernest Lehman, who cowrote the screenplay with Clifford Odets. Lancaster hides a volcano of rage beneath a quiet exterior, while Curtis gives what some have called his finest performance.

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   • But the real muscle of the film is the bristling lead performances: Lancaster, cold, cruel, and cynical and Curtis (rarely better), blinded by ambition, and ravenous for the success of the title. A powerful mediation on greed, power, and immorality, "Sweet Smell Of Success" is a magnificent, sobering work with a heart of darkness.

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   • Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical was created by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia, and John Guare in 2002.

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   • Sweet Smell of Success Tony Curtis (left) and Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema and is regarded as one of the foremost James Bond scholars. His book The Essential Bond: An Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (written with...

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   Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.

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   Sweet Smell of Success, American film noir, released in 1957, that was praised for its intensity, intelligent dialogue, and searing look at corruption in big-city journalism.

   Burt Lancaster played J.J. Hunsecker, a ruthless Broadway columnist (based on Walter Winchell) who delights in destroying his enemies’ careers. Desperate to curry his favour, the publicist Sidney Falco (played by Tony Curtis) agrees to help Hunsecker break up the relationship between the columnist’s sister and a jazz musician.

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   •Studio: United Artists

   •Director: Alexander Mackendrick

   •Producer: James Hill

   •Writers: Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman

   •Music: Elmer Bernstein

   •Running time: 96 minutes

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   •Burt Lancaster (J.J. Hunsecker)

   •Tony Curtis (Sidney Falco)

   •Susan Harrison (Susan Hunsecker)

   •Martin Milner (Steve Dallas)

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   • Author: Lee Pfeiffer

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   Oct 21, 1997 · In “Sweet Smell of Success,” Falco hatches a scheme to convince another columnist–Hunsecker’s bitter rival–to run the smear item, so that Susan won’t suspect it comes from her brother’s camp.

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   Sweet Smell of Success: Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner. Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

   • 8/10 (36K)
   • Genre: Drama, Film-Noir

   • Director: Alexander Mackendrick
   • Release Date: 1957-07-04

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   Sep 5, 2001 · Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick's deliciously dark take on the malicious underbelly of Broadway PR, and the grubby columns which fuel the human need for gossip, remains one of the ...

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   Sweet Smell of Success boasts a top-notch cast, sharp direction, atmospheric cinematography, and an appropriately jazzy score, making it one of the best noir crime thrillers ever made.

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   • Category: Drama

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    Dec 25, 2000 · “Sweet Smell of Success” had its roots in real life: Ernest Lehman’s. In 1950 Lehman published a novella in Cosmopolitan magazine called “Tell Me About It Tomorrow.”