Sweet Smell of Success (re-release)

Name: Sweet Smell of Success (re-release)
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Released: March 15, 2002
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 100
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis

2002

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United Artists | Release Date: March 15, 2002 | TV-PG

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis

Summary: A 35mm print re-release of Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 film-noir tale of greed and corruption in New York City.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 96 min

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Staff (not credited)

Captures the sleazy allure of Manhattan like no other film. Read full review

100

Kim Morgan

Can a film so expertly capture the odious and bitter that it becomes deliciously, disgustingly beautiful? Yes, if that film is 1957's Sweet Smell of Success. Read full review

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David Sterritt

Everyone raves about this 1957 film -- and everyone's right. Read full review

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Dana Stevens

Its pleasures are almost obscenely abundant. Read full review

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It's a no-holds-barred account of the sadistic fourth estater played cunningly by Burt Lancaster. Read full review

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gioconda

Jul 20, 2014

Universally admired movie captures the energy of Manhattan and explores the power of celebrity and the dark side of the power of the press. Electrifying performances from Lancaster as a sinister newspaper columnist who abuses his vast power, and Tony Curtis as a sleazy, bottom-feeder PRUniversally admired movie captures the energy of Manhattan and explores the power of celebrity and the dark side of the power of the press. Electrifying performances from Lancaster as a sinister newspaper columnist who abuses his vast power, and Tony Curtis as a sleazy, bottom-feeder PR flack. Barbara Nichols is mind-blowing as the voluptuous cigarette girl with the heart of gold forced to compromise herself to put her son through military school. Crackling dialogue by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets. Lush B&W photography by the masterful James Wong Howe that captures the essence, the neon lights, and the grime of NYC all at once, Believe the hype.

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