Sweet Smell of Success
In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker 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.
Special Features
- Exclusive new digital restoration from the original 35 mm camera negative, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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 (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker
- New video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick’s book On Film-making, introduced by the book's editor, Paul Cronin
New cover by Sean Phillips
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Special Features
- Exclusive new digital restoration from the original 35 mm camera negative, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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 (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker
- New video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick’s book On Film-making, introduced by the book's editor, Paul Cronin
New cover by Sean Phillips
Cast
- Burt Lancaster
- J. J. Hunsecker
- Tony Curtis
- Sidney Falco
- Susan Harrison
- Susan Hunsecker
- Marty Milner
- Steve Dallas
- Jeff Donnell
- Sally
- Sam Levene
- Frank D’Angelo
- Joe Frisco
- Herbie Temple
- Barbara Nichols
- Rita
- Emile Meyer
- Harry Kello
- Edith Atwater
- Mary
- The Chico Hamilton Quintet
- The Chico Hamilton Quintet
- David White
- Otis Elwell
- Lawrence Dobkin
- Leo Bartha
- Lurene Tuttle
- Mrs. Bartha
- Queenie Smith
- Mildred Tam
- Autumn Russell
- Linda
- Jay Adler
- Manny Davis
- Lewis Charles
- Al Evans
Credits
- Director
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Producer
- James Hill
- Music scored and conducted by
- Elmer Bernstein
- Photographed by
- James Wong Howe
- Screenplay
- Clifford Odets
- Screenplay
- Ernest Lehman
- From the novelette by
- Ernest Lehman
- Art director
- Edward Carrere
- Editorial supervision
- Alan Crosland Jr.
- Songs
- Chico Hamilton
- Songs
- Fred Katz
- Production manager
- Richard McWhorter
- Assistant director
- Richard Maybery
- Costumes designed by
- Mary Grant
- Set decorator
- Edward Boyle
- Makeup
- Robert Schiffer
- Effects editor
- Robert Carlisle
- Music editor
- Lloyd Young
- Sound recording
- Jack Solomon
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