Sweet smell of success
Sweet smell of success [videorecording] /
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Hill, Hecht and Lancaster present a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture released through United Artists ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
- Special ed.
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
- Criterion collection ; 555 .
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 555. .
Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Special features: Disc 1. Commentary by film scholar James Naremore; Theatrical trailer. Disc 2. "Mackendrick: the man who walked away" Scottish television documentary (1986); "James Wong Howe: cinematographer" documentary (1973); "Gabler on Winchell" video essay with film historian Neal Gabler; James Mangold interview. Booklet: Gary Giddins essay; "On the writing of Sweet smell of success" by Ernest Lehman; "Hunsecker fights the world" by Ernest Lehman; "It's the little things that count" by Ernest Lehman; "Mackendrick and Odets" by Paul Cronin.
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music scored and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; songs by Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz ; art director, Edward Carrere ; costumes designed by Mary Grant ; set decorator, Edward Boyle ; sound recording, Jack Solomon. Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music scored and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; songs by Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz ; art director, Edward Carrere ; costumes designed by Mary Grant ; set decorator, Edward Boyle ; sound recording, Jack Solomon.
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD; region 1, NTCS; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
1604653876 9781604653878
715515068017
CC1980D The Criterion Collection
Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)
Brothers and sisters--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Gossip columnists--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Jazz musicians--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film noir.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Special features: Disc 1. Commentary by film scholar James Naremore; Theatrical trailer. Disc 2. "Mackendrick: the man who walked away" Scottish television documentary (1986); "James Wong Howe: cinematographer" documentary (1973); "Gabler on Winchell" video essay with film historian Neal Gabler; James Mangold interview. Booklet: Gary Giddins essay; "On the writing of Sweet smell of success" by Ernest Lehman; "Hunsecker fights the world" by Ernest Lehman; "It's the little things that count" by Ernest Lehman; "Mackendrick and Odets" by Paul Cronin.
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music scored and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; songs by Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz ; art director, Edward Carrere ; costumes designed by Mary Grant ; set decorator, Edward Boyle ; sound recording, Jack Solomon. Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music scored and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; songs by Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz ; art director, Edward Carrere ; costumes designed by Mary Grant ; set decorator, Edward Boyle ; sound recording, Jack Solomon.
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD; region 1, NTCS; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
1604653876 9781604653878
715515068017
CC1980D The Criterion Collection
Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)
Brothers and sisters--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Gossip columnists--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Jazz musicians--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film noir.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.