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Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Rank 3 Reviews
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BBCi - Films
Mackendrick's deliciously dark take on the malicious underbelly of Broadway PR, and the grubby columns which fuel the human need for gossip, remains one of the sharpest and corrosively perceptive films to emerge from Hollywood.
The film revolves ...read the complete Sweet Smell of Success movie review at BBCi - Films
Netflix (James Rocchi)
Lancaster-Curtis saga of Manhattan's amoral media has spark and a wicked bite. ...read the complete Sweet Smell of Success movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Astonishingly good look at a thinly-veiled Walter Winchell, the New York gossip columnist who reigned with terror as one of the most influential writers of his time. Burt Lancaster burns up the screen as J.J. Hunsecker, who enlists Tony Curtis's Sidney Fa ...read the complete Sweet Smell of Success movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
eFilmCritic.com (Natasha Theobald)
Burt Lancaster plays J.J. Hunsecker, a powerful man whose words reach an audience of 60 million people. He is rich and famous, but he is not happy. His sister is in love with a jazz musician, and he is unwilling to lose her to anyone. So, he calls on ...read the complete Sweet Smell of Success movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Natasha Theobald)
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