Sweet smell of success / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Hecht, Hill, and Lancaster present ; a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Sweet smell of success (Motion picture) Mackendrick: the man who walked away. James Wong Howe : cinematographer. Gabler on Winchell.
Notes:
Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Special features: Disc 1. Commentary by film scholar James Naremore; Theatrical trailer. Disc 2. "Mackendrick: the man who walked away" Scottish television documentary (1986); "James Wong Howe: cinematographer" documentary (1973); "Gabler on Winchell" video essay with film historian Neal Gabler; James Mangold interview. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, Chico Hamilton Quintet.
Contents:
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Summary:
A barbaric Broadway gossip columnist ropes an unprincipled press agent into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
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