Alexander.Mackendrick.Sweet.Smell.of.Success.1957.DVDR.2DiSC.D2.DVD9.CC-555.nfo
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CIIXEQ/
http://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success
Criterion Collection # 555
DVD Release Date: February 22, 2011
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Description
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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.
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 6.31 + 6.56 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Sound (main feature): English DD2.0
Subtitles: optional English
SET FEATURES:
# Exclusive new digital restoration from the original 35 mm camera negative.
# 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.
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