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10 de feb. 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 oct. 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.
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 ...
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.
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….
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 Lancaster and Tony Curtis, and it launched Curtis into ...
