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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate PG | | Cast
Burt Lancaster
Tony Curtis
Susan Harrison
Marty Milner | | Directors
Alexander Mackendrick | | Screenwriters
Ernest Lehman | | Running Time
96 minutes |
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Sweet Smell of Success
Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 hymn to Manhattan sleaze is a cast iron classic.
Plot
Broadway. All powerful journalist J.J. Hunsecker has cut press agent Sidney Falco out of his column after Sidney has failed to break up a relationship between J.J.'s beloved sister and a musician. Luckily, Sidney has a plan; a plan involving blackmail.
Verdict
With some of the sharpest dialogue ever cut in Hollywood, only on the most superficial level is this a movie about gossip and publicity. We're talking show business. We're talking America. We're talking cast-iron classic.
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