Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

96 min · Film Noir, Social Drama, drama film, film noir

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Directors

Alexander Mackendrick

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Edith Atwater, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer

The story

Up-and-coming Manhattan press agent Sidney Falco scans the New York Globe for the column of J.J. Hunsecker, a media kingpin whose journalism and radio show dominate the entertainment world. For the fifth day, J.J.

Catalogue themes and tags

1950s, Broadway, Career, Career ladder, Defamation, Dependence, Jazz Musician, Kolumne, Lovestory, Media Tycoon, New York, New Yorker, Power, Tageszeitung, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, bruder-schwester, Media Satire, Drama, Black-and-white, Film noir, Film à clef

Genres

Film Noir, Social Drama, drama film, film noir

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