Film
Sweet Smell of Success
- Director
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 96 mins
Ealing director Alexander Mackendrick’s atypical Hollywood debut: a splendidly perverse film noir with Tony Curtis as a gossip hustling press agent under the thumb of a vicious Broadway newspaper columnist (Burt Lancaster). Its exploration of greed and ambition is just as relevant today as it was back then. In fact, the film was something of a flop on release, only subsequently being acclaimed as a classic.
It’s back on screen in the ‘shed’s timely Manipulating the Message season as part of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered.
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