Sweet Smell of Success

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Call Number: DVD Film-Noir Sweet Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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).
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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.
DVD; NTCS, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Contents: Sweet smell of success.

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Boy is that Walter Winchell dripping with evil. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 10:10am Er, I mean Sidney Falco.