Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

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“Lurid, sleazy and venal, "Sweet Smell of Success" fits the criteria for film noir and then some. Journalism is the source of shady dealings and machinations here, with not a single character within that field shown as being either worthy of praise or beyond reproach. Alexander Mackendrick unveils the New York press elite without averting from their reprehensibility, ensuring that his film pervades cynicism and sardonicism, with every frame exuding rancour, vitriol and scorn for the characters and their indefensible actions. Mackendrick presents us with repellent characters and situations without gangsters, molls or murders, and heightened considerably by James Wong Howe's superbly off-kilter cinematography, this conversion of antediluvian noir themes in a dramatic context yields results. "” read more

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"Contorting words, loyalties, perspectives, and truths is second nature for a high-powered New York City columnist, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), and his publicist lackey, Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis). There are no heroes in Sweet Smell of Success, just victimizers and victims. Often, key characters inhabit both roles simultaneously, with the sleek and sly Sidney fitting this mold perfectly. One second Sidney’s a sweet talker, the next he’s gutting your character from the inside out, and it�"

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"A tough classic drama with Burt Lancaster as an all-powerful Broadway columnist who persuades Tony Curtis's desperate press agent to break up the relationship between Lancaster's sister and a jazz musician. One of those films where the dialogue crackles and deserves multiple screenings to capture the effect of the performances. Lancaster and Curtis have never been better is a game of wit. A film that will stay with you."

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"Faced with looming unemployment following the sale of Ealing Studios in 1954, director Alexander Mackendrick made the leap from directing some of the best loved British comedies of the era to a completely different style of American production with amazing smoothness. Few directors have two such different films as 'Whiskey Galore' and 'Sweet Smell of Success' in their canon, although the darker tones of Mackendrick's previous film 'The Ladykillers' bridges the gap between the two styles. Featuri"