LoginSweet Smell of Success - Region 1 DVD
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A classic of the late 1950s, this film 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 show-biz Manhattan: gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster). 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. Director Ale
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 19 June 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792850168 UPC: 027616862969
Release date: 19 June 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792850168 UPC: 027616862969
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