Sweet Smell Of Success
96 minutes,
USA (1957), PG
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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