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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.
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.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1957-07-04
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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
•Burt Lancaster (J.J. Hunsecker)
•Tony Curtis (Sidney Falco)
•Susan Harrison (Susan Hunsecker)
•Martin Milner (Steve Dallas)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Novel, Screenplay. New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas.
In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious 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.
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Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, featuring Burt Lancaster as powerful columnist J.J. Hunsecker and Tony Curtis as ambitious press agent Sidney Falco.
