tt0051036 Sweet Smell of Success (1957)Director : Alexander Mackendrick

Release Date : 27 June 1957 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Film-Noir

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker , Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco , Susan Harrison as Susan Hunsecker , Martin Milner as Steve Dallas (as Marty Milner) , Jeff Donnell as Sally , Sam Levene as Frank D' Angelo , Joe Frisco as Herbie Temple , Barbara Nichols as Rita , Emile Meyer as Lt. Harry Kello , Edith Atwater as Mary , The Chico Hamilton Quintet as Themselves

Plot : A biting inspect the ruthless universe of a influential furthermore evil New York columnist.

Run Time : 96 min

Country : USA

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Language : English

Filming Locations : New York City, New York, USA

Company : Curtleigh Productions

Trivia : The movie’s column “I’d loath to acquire a bite outta you. You’re a cookie filled with arsenic” was voted since the #99 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere inside 2007.

Goofs : Continuity: When Sidney is aiming to envision the file inside advance, the stance of the secretary changes. This is whilst she moves the back up delight in solitary neighboring of the desk to the other.

Tag Lines : They know him - and they shiver - the big names of Broadway, Hollywood and Capitol Hill. They know J.J.- the world-famed columnist whose gossip is gospel to sixty million readers! They know the venom that flickers in those eyes behind the glasses - and they fawn - like Sid Falco, the kid who wanted "in" so much, he'd sell out his own girl to stand up there with J.J., sucking in the sweet smell of success! This is J.J.'s story - but not the way he would have liked it told!
This is the story of J.J. - But not the way he wants it told!
The almighty J.J. …the columnist with sixty million believers …his wrath is feared by the great and near great who worship the sweet smell of success!
The Motion Picture That Will Never Be Forgiven… Or Forgotten!

Plot Summary : J.J. Hunsecker, the certain commanding newspaper columnist inside New York, is dogged to weigh down his cousin fancy marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He thus covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy as in any case as unscrupulous commangle agent, to cut up the interest by any characteristic possible.

J.J. Hunsceker (Burt Lancaster), is a tyrannical Broadway columnist as the New York Globe who procedures his demimonde plus the press’s electricity to fashion or destroy. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), is the hustling publicist who is chomped by frantic purpose furthermore hates himself as a end result of it; he will do what to good the awe of Hunsceker ("My experience, inside brief, is doggy eat dog.") The motion picture was scene inside black furthermore colorless by James Wong Howe, collapsing it a grittiness that underscores the product ranking in the midst of the characters. In the essay by Clifford Odets furthermore Ernest Lehman, Falco’s too soon guess - "Every doggy has its day" - comes crashingly true.

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