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Sweet smell of success [Blu-ray videorecording] / a film by Alexander Mackendrick.

Criterion Collection, 2011.

Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)

Jazz musicians -- Drama.

Gossip columnists -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Criterion collection ; 555.

Alternate title:

Mackendrick: the man who walked away [Blu-ray videorecording].

James Wong Howe : cinematographer [Blu-ray videorecording].

Gabler on Winchell [Blu-ray videorecording].

[Blu-ray videorecording] /

1 Blu-ray disc (96 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Special features: Disc 1. Commentary by film scholar James Naremore ; theatrical trailer. Disc 2. "Mackendrick: the man who walked away" Scottish television documentary (1986) ; "James Wong Howe: cinematographer" documentary (1973) ; "Gabler on Winchell" video essay with film historian Neal Gabler ; James Mangold interview. Booklet: Gary Giddins essay ; "On the writing of Sweet smell of success" by Ernest Lehman ; "Hunsecker fights the world" by Ernest Lehman ; "It's the little things that count" by Ernest Lehman ; "Mackendrick and Odets" by Paul Cronin : PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick's book On Film-Making, introduced by the book's editor, Paul Cronin.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Hill, Hecht and Lancaster present a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture released through United Artists ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and introducing Susan Harrison with Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater and the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

"In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell Of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers), Burt Lancaster (Brute , The Leopard) stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot, Spartacus) as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets (Notorious, Bigger Than Life) and Ernest Lehman (North By Northwest, The Sound Of Music), and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (The Thin Man, Yankee Doodle Dandy), Sweet Smell Of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan."--Container.

Satirical films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005. Sweet smell of success.

Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993.

Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994.

Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010.

Harrison, Susan, 1938-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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