Sweet Smell of Success
About Sweet Smell of Success
New York City newspaper writer J.J.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Burt Lancaster appears as J.J. Hunsecker, Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, Susan Harrison as Susan Hunsecker, and Martin Milner as Steve Dallas.
It runs 97 minutes and was released in July 1957. Written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman.
Members will find film noir, newspaper, jazz singer or musician, and media tycoon in it. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 607 TMDB voters.
Citizen Kane, Scarface, and While the City Sleeps make useful companions to Sweet Smell of Success, all filed under black and white.