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22 de fev. de 2011 · Watch the trailer of the classic film noir SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, a tale of power, corruption and betrayal in the media world.
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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 ...
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 ...
22 de fev. de 2011 · It wasn’t intended. No one could have predicted it. But Sweet Smell of Success turned out to be a terminus where several movie genres and subgenres converged and curdled, producing a uniquely delicious perfume of everlasting cynicism. Inhale deeply. And think of the years between 1927, when talkies were born, and 1957, when Sidney Falco flew too close to the Hun and got his wings clipped, as ...
Sharp-edged [and] merciless. One extraordinary American noir!" (Roger Ebert). A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this "fascinating, compelling story: (The Hollywood Reporter) crackles with "taut direction and whiplash dialogue" (Time). Bristling with vivid performances by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, this gutsy ...
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Writer: Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman. Cinematographer: James Wong Howe. Editor: Alan Crosland Jr. Production Designers: Edward Carrere. Production Company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster","Norma-Curtleigh Productions. This film marks the second screen pairing of Burt ...
