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Sweet Smell Of Success
Obsessive egomaniac news columnist JJ Hunsecker (Lancaster) is the man striving for power and dominance in this classic movie of manipulation and corruption, assisted by Tony Curtis, his less than honest press agent. Alexander MacKendrick directs the beautifully abrasive screenplay, adapted from Ernest Lehiman's novel.
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) The Sweet Smell Of Success [1957]
A classic from the late 1950s, <I>The Sweet Smell of Success</I> looks at the string-pulling behind-the-scenes action between desperate press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) and the ultimate power broker in that long-ago showbiz Manhattan, gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster).<p> Written by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets (who based the Hunsecker character on the similarly brutal and power-mad Walter Winchell), the film follows Falco's attempts to promote a client through Hunsecker's column--until he is forced to make a deal with the devil and help Hunsecker ruin a jazz musician who has the nerve to date Hunsecker's sister.<p> Shooting on location, mostly at night, director Alexander MacKendrick and cinematographer James Wong Howe capture this New York demi-monde in silky black and white, in which neon and shadows share a scarily symbiotic relationship--a near-match for the poisonous give-and-take between the edgy Curtis and the dismissive Lancaster. --<I>Marshall Fine, Amazon.com</I>
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Overlook Press,U.S. Sweet Smell of Success: The Short Fiction of Ernest Lehman
Pages: 239, Paperback, Overlook Press,U.S.
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£10.99
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