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Sweet Smell Of Success 96 minutes, USA (1957), PG
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Average user rating (5 / 22 votes)

Snappy satire of the venal Manhattan media scene starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis as powerful journalist and press agent respectively

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Sweet Smell Of Success: Infamous 1940s newspaper columnist Walter Winchell was far from pleased with Lancaster's portrayal of a similar figure in this dark satire, largely because it portrayed the character (obviously inspired by him) in such a negative light. The public were similarly unenamoured of the film - there's no escapism in this wittily, intelligently created cynical moral wastelandand...
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