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One night in Manhattan, slick, up-and-coming press agent Sidney Falco scans the New York Globe for the column of the immensely popular journalist J.J. Hunsecker, an influential media kingpin whose journalistic contributions and associated radio show both dominate the entertainment world.
Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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.
- (36K)
- Drama, Film-Noir
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1957-07-04
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. Running time. 96 minutes. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis play tabloid baron J.J. Hunsecker and grasping press agent Sidney Falco in this jet-black satire on the venality of the newspaper business.
Sidney Falco : Where do you come off, making a remark like that? Susan Hunsecker : Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?
Second-billed to Burt Lancaster, but ostensibly the star, Curtis plays Sidney Falco, a press agent who never knows when to quit and tries to make a success of himself despite others’ attempts to prevent it. Lancaster plays J.J. Hunsecker, a popular columnist whose vitriolic pen can bolster or tear down anyone’s career.
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