Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Name: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis

In the swift, endlessly quotable and 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. 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.<div><br></div><div>A film that still to this day feels far ahead of its time, Sweet Smell of Success is some of the most fun you can have within a cinema. It's snappy dialogue will have you quoting back lines to yourself incessantly. </div>Drama, Film-NoirPT1H36MM

Burt Lancaster

Tony Curtis

Alexander Mackendrick

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)"Sweet Smell of Success (1957)"

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