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10 de fev. de 2011 · Out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 22nd, 2011! Learn more: http://www.criterion.com/films/27542In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster s...
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21 de out. de 1997 · When "The Sweet Smell of Success" was released in 1957, it was seen as a thinly-veiled attack on Walter Winchell, who for decades had been the most famous and reviled gossip columnist in America. Forty years later Winchell is mostly forgotten (he died in 1972), but the film lives on--sharp-edged, merciless.
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. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script ...
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.
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), is a tyrannical Broadway columnist for the New York Globe who rules his demimonde with the press's power to create or destroy. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), is the hustling publicist who is consumed by desperate ambition and hates himself because of it; he will do anything to gain the admiration of Hunsecker ("My ...
31 de jul. de 2014 · Criterion: Shadows, John Cassavetes →. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK, 1957 Sweet Smell of Success is one of many in a long line of New York City masterpieces. It captures not only the high traffic sprawl, but also the culture and especially the seedy underbelly. In this case the sludge is the press, and is based on the life….
Patrick Willems. Timcop ★★★★★. Rida ★★★★★. Sweet Smell of Success is one of those classic films that feel so startlingly contemporary that you can’t help but check and recheck the release date just to make sure that the black-and-white was a necessity rather than a stylistic choice. The actors speak in those movie accents ...
