Name: Sweet smell of success
Brand: Criterion Collection
SKU: SD_ILS:1904638
Availability: InStock

Author

Alexander Mackendrick

Call Number

BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Uniform Title

Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)

Series

Criterion collection ; 555

National Film Registry

Summary

"In the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan."--Container.

Notes

From the novellette by Ernest Lehman.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Special features: New digital restoration from the original 35 mm camera negative, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; new audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore ; Mackendrick: the man who walked away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others ; James Wong Howe: cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe ; new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, insipiration for the character J.J. Hunsecker ; new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor ; original theatrical trailer.