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In Alexander Mackendrick’s swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
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. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the ...
The real Walter Winchell, no longer as powerful as he'd been in the 1940s but still a man to be reckoned with, went after Ernest Lehman with both barrels upon the release of Sweet Smell of Success. Winchell was not so much offended by the unflattering portrait of himself as by the dredging up of an unpleasant domestic incident from his past.
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….
With Sweet Smell of Success, his first stab at Hollywood filmmaking after a decade spent unhappily in the British film industry, American-Scottish director Alexander Mackendrick came away with a genuine classic, though unfortunately this was not reflected in its meager box-office performance at the time.
7 de mar. de 2011 · Sweet Smell 's Manhattan is a seamy, deglamorized world in which small men destroy lives to make themselves big. At its center is the apache dance between Burt Lancaster's bullying Hunsecker, who ...
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.
