Sweet smell of success [videorecording] / Hecht, Hill and Lancaster present ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick ; produced by James Hill ; a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
[Special] DVD ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
2 videodiscs (217 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Title from container. Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Special features: audio commentary by James Naremore; original theatrical trailer; documentary "Mackendrick : the man who walked away" (1986); documentary "James Wong Howe : cinematographer" (1986); new video interview with Neal Gabler about columnist Walter Winchell, insipiration for the character of Hunsecker; essays, short stories introducing the characters, notes about the film (in booklet).
Contents:
Disc 1. The film (96 min.) -- Disc 2. The supplements (121 min.).
Summary:
Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
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