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1 de abr. de 2022 · Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is an acerbic, dynamic and intense film that exposes the diseased under-side of New York City's glamorous night life, revealing brutality, capriciousness, greed, evil, psychological violence, corrupt American ambition, betrayal and cynicism. The taut, little-seen, menacing, late film noir classic is the first American film of Scottish director Alexander ...
31 de jul. de 2014 · Criterion: Shadows, John Cassavetes →. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK, 1957 Sweet Smell of Success is one of many in a long line of New York City masterpieces. It captures not only the high traffic sprawl, but also the culture and especially the seedy underbelly. In this case the sludge is the press, and is based on the life….
Sharp-edged [and] merciless. One extraordinary American noir!" (Roger Ebert). A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this "fascinating, compelling story: (The Hollywood Reporter) crackles with "taut direction and whiplash dialogue" (Time). Bristling with vivid performances by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, this gutsy ...
Sweet Smell of Success. Available on Pluto TV, MGM+, Philo, Prime Video, iTunes, Sling TV. Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. Drama 1957 1 hr 36 min.
25 de dic. de 2000 · “Sweet Smell of Success” was a twofold risk for Lancaster. As a producer he was taking on a story based on a powerful real-life personality, and one that involved incest, drugs and still-fresh ...
Sweet Smell of Success is one of those rare films from the 1950s that remains fresh and has lost little, if any, of its initial impact. Its stark neon-lit Manhattan location, where people rush about manically like steroid-dosed ants, gives the film a striking modernity and its subject remains just as relevant today as it did when the film was made.
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the ...
