Sweet Smell of Success

Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister s romance with a jazz musician. Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American English-language Drama Film-Noir motion picture starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene and H.m. Wynant. The movie is based on Sweet Smell of Success by Ernest Lehman. Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) James Hill. Sweet Smell of Success is written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Alexander Mackendrick and it is directed by Alexander Mackendrick. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Sweet Smell of Success was released on 4th July 1957 and takes a screen time of 96 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Sweet Smell of Success was made on a budget of $3 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Alexander Mackendrick. Cinematography was done by James Wong Howe and editing by Alan Crosland Jr. The music was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
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