Title:
Sweet smell of success
ISBN:
9781604653878
Edition:
[Special ed.].
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Special features: audio commentary by James Naremore; original theatrical trailer; documentary "Mackendrick : the man who walked away" (1986); documentary "James Wong Howe : cinematographer" (1986); new video interview with Neal Gabler about columnist Walter Winchell, insipiration for the character of Hunsecker; essays, short stories introducing the characters, notes about the film (in booklet).
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Summary:
Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
System Details:
DVD; NTCS, REGION 1, WIDESCREEN (1.66:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
