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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Classic
Release Date:June 27, 1957
Running time:96 minutes
Cast:Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene
Director:Alexander Mackendrick
Producer:James Hill
Writer:Ernest Lehman & Clifford Odets
Distributor:United Artists

Description: J.J. Hunsecker, a powerful New York newspaper columnist, is dead set against his sister's marrying a jazz musician. Sidney Falco, a sleazy PR man, will do anything to get publicity for his clients, and he sees Hunsecker's situation as an opportunity to win the writer's favor. So, he sets out to break up the affair anyway he can.

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