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9 de abr. de 2024 · James Hill. Written by. Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman. Featuring. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. Running time. 96 minutes. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis play tabloid baron J.J. Hunsecker and grasping press agent Sidney Falco in this jet-black satire on the venality of the newspaper business.
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 ...
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.
In 1993 Sweet Smell of Success was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Below are Lehman’s handwritten thoughts in response to director MacKendrick’s notes concerning the screenplay as of August 1956.
5172. 5173. Sweet Smell of Success is 5169 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 2973 places since yesterday. In Canada, it is currently more popular than Where the Red Fern Grows but less popular than Country Gold.
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25 de dic. de 2000 · “Sweet Smell of Success” was a twofold risk for Lancaster. As a producer he was taking on a story based on a powerful real-life personality, and one that involved incest, drugs and still-fresh ...
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.
