Sweet Smell of Success (Criterion Collection)
The almighty J.J... the columnist with sixty million believers... his wrath is feared by the great and near great who worship the sweet smell of success!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis | |
Performer: | Martin Milner, Samm Levine, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Edith Atwater & Emile Meyer | |
Directed by | Alexander Mackendrick | |
Edited by | Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
Screenwriting by | Clifford Odets & Ernest Lehman | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Art Direction by | Edward Carrere | |
Director of Photography: | James Wong Howe |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
It all begins with the title. The irony aside, its lightness and alliteration suggest the last breaths of one of the film's victims.
Film Threat
Rating: 5/5 --
New York never looked as thrillingly sordid as it does in this scabrous masterpiece.
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Times (UK)
... one of the most lacerating and vicious visions of the predatory urban world in the American cinema...
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Parallax View
[T]he movie gave off a new, cynical metropolitan attitude, with more twists than a barrel of pretzels.
Premiere
James Hill's production, locationed in Manhattan, captures the feel of Broadway and environs after dark.
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Variety
Mackendrick's nighthawk landscape is compellingly, poetically bleak.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
A masterpiece.
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Film4
Product Description:
Director Alexander Mackendrick breaks away from black comedy (THE LADYKILLERS) and goes for full-fledged noir in this spectacular hard-boiled tale of greed, corruption, and brutality. In the flashing neon nighttime of NYC, grasping press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) trawls the city's toniest nightspots--21,the Elysian--searching for the king of celebrity columnists, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster). Falco is on the outs with Hunsecker because he hasn't successfully broken up the romance between Hunsecker's sister, Susie (Susan Harrison), and straitlaced jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner). The all-powerful Hunsecker is punishing Falco's failure by not printing any of the publicist's items. Desperate to make a living, Falco reveals a dirty plan to separate weak-willed Susie from her beau. While disgusted by Falco's slimy trade, the threatening, malicious columnist is determined to keep Susie for himself, so he agrees. In this jazzily scored, seamy nocturnal world, everyone is expendable as Hunsecker pushes for his twisted desires and Falco grasps for success. With their machine-gun dialogue and despicable behavior, Hunsecker and Falco are as dangerous as gangsters. The person who comes out on top when the sun rises, however, is a true surprise.
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