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Sweet smell of success
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- Summary
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Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician roma...
Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
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- Creator
- Hecht, Hill and Lancaster present ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick ; produced by James Hill ; a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963, author of screenplay
- Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993, director
- Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
- Hill, James, 1916-2001, producer
- Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994, actor
- Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010, actor
- Milner, Martin, 1931-2015, actor
- Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005. Sweet smell of success
- Norma Productions
- Curtleigh Productions
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Publication
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- [Special edition]
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (56 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
- ISBNs
- 9781604653878, 1604653876
- OCLC
- ocn701110366
- Credits
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- Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, the Chico Hamilton Quintet
- Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music by Elmer Bernstein
- Title from container.
- Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
- Special features: audio commentary by James Naremore; original theatrical trailer; documentary "Mackendrick : the man who walked away" (1986); documentary "James Wong Howe : cinematographer" (1986); new video interview with Neal Gabler about columnist Walter Winchell, insipiration for the character of Hunsecker; essays, short stories introducing the characters, notes about the film (in booklet).
- DVD
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements