New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Tony Curtis Burt Lancaster Susan Harrison Martin Milner Jeff Donnell Sam Levene Joe Frisco Barbara Nichols Emile Meyer Edith Atwater Jay Adler Mary Bayless Nicky Blair Nick Borgani Ralph Brooks Brad Brown Steve Carruthers Robert Carson Lewis Charles Dick Cherney Buddy Clark Paul Cristo Joe Di Reda Lawrence Dobkin Tom Ferrandini John Fiedler Bess Flowers William Forrest Joseph Forte Show All…
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Gonna start ending every conversation with “You’re dead son. Get yourself buried.”
Drinking game idea: Take a drink every time someone does or says something horrible.
Spoiler alert: you're dead after 5 minutes.
Sweet Smell of Success is one of those classic films that feel so startlingly contemporary that you can’t help but check and recheck the release date just to make sure that the black-and-white was a necessity rather than a stylistic choice. The actors speak in those movie accents, yes, and there’s a conspicuous lack of onscreen sex and language, but something about Sweet Smell of Success is so true and real that I can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that it was released in 1957 and not last year.
Everything is dark and nasty enough to make you feel like you’ve just witnessed something very wrong. At first it’s the usual rudeness and clever lines that characterize our…
"Don't you see that today that boy wiped his feet on the choice, on the predilections of sixty million men and women of the greatest country in the world. If you had any morals yourself, you would understand the immorality of that boy's stand today. It was not me he criticized - it was my readers."
Is Burt Lancaster as JJ Hunsecker low-key one of the most evil characters in movie history? Sources say: Yes. It's not just his barely contained incestuous designs on his sister, the leering menace punctuating every single word he says, or his red-baiting scandal mongering for the right-wing press, but rather the contempt with which he treats Tony Curtis’ Sidney Falco. Hunsecker is constantly berating…
There are two separate instances in this where someone compares someone else to a pretzel as an insult
J.J. lords over everything, his face almost always in shadow and glasses cover his eyes. Sidney lurks in the background, wringing shaky hands. And the city like a prison, a dungeon. An edge of your seat thriller with no action or mystery beyond who's going to get destroyed next, every line of breathtaking dialogue a cobra strike. Everyone's a maniac of the most terrifying type - the smart, the calculating. Newspaper-wise, makes ACE IN THE HOLE look downright friendly. Why did this movie have to end?
you ever watch a film with dialogue so sharp that you have to periodically check your ears to make sure they're not bleeding
the eternal struggle between an absolute power top and a bottom who thinks he's a top
A masterpiece and an example of a film that effectively shows the darker aspects of the American psyche during that mid-century time. Scorsese was right to say that is one of the best films ever made.
"I'd hate to take a bite outta you; you're a cookie full of arsenic."
With Sweet Smell of Success, his first stab at Hollywood filmmaking after a decade spent unhappily in the British film industry, American-Scottish director Alexander Mackendrick came away with a genuine classic, though unfortunately this was not reflected in its meager box-office performance at the time. Its inauspicious reception did little for the director who remained a journeyman throughout his troubled career.
Human cockroach Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) serves as a press agent for an ever-dwindling roster of third-tier entertainers who grow progressively frustrated over his inability to put their names in bright lights (or at the very least in the sordid newspaper columns that serve as…
