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Sweet Smell Of Success

1957, Movie, NR, 96 mins

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
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"I love this dirty town!" The town being, of course, New York City, and the speaker is the ruthless, Walter Winchell-esque showbiz journalist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster, in the performance of his career). The line is typical of director Alexander Mackendrick's perverse, masterly romance of urban menace, the cult of personality and moral decay. Tony Curtis stars as a Broadway flack who shamelessly panders to the columnist. Read the complete review for Sweet Smell Of Success
Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in their best roles as a power-mad newspaper columnist and the press agent who supplies him with dirt in Sweet Smell of Success (1957).
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Posted: 12/5/2008
"The opening credit sequence to Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a classic film noir directed by director Alexander MacKendrick. "
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) tries to impose his will over his assistant (Tony Curtis) in Sweet Smell of Success (1957).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
A ruthless New York columnist uses a pandering press agent in his scheme to end his sister's romance with a jazz musician. First-rate cast and script!
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Length: 00:29
Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 1957
Rated NR

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Cast
Burt Lancaster: J.J. Hunsecker
Tony Curtis: Sidney Falco
Susan Harrison: Susan Hunsecker
Martin Milner: Steve Dallas
Sam Levene: Frank D'Angelo
Barbara Nichols: Rita

 

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