Sweet Smell of Success

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller’s introduction and comments following Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

Introduction and comments following Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Carl Bernstein.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

Press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) rings high-powered columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) with news that he’s arranged for another columnist to run an item that should break up his sheltered sister’s romance with a jazz musician, in Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

The rousing New York opening credit sequence to Sweet Smell of Success, 1957, introducing Tony Curtis as press agent Sidney Falco, and indirectly, Burt Lancaster as columnist J.J. Hunsecker, directed by Alexander MacKendrick.

Calling from the lobby at 21 Club, press agent Sidney (Tony Curtis) begs monster columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster, his first scene) for an audience at his table, joining a senator, his consort and an agent (William Forrest, Autumn Russel, Jay Adler), in Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957, from Ernest Lehman's novella and screenplay co-written with Clifford Odets.

One of Tony Curtis' best scenes ever, as press agent Sidney Falco with assistant Sally (Jeff Donnell), having failed to get an item published for restauranteur Joe (Joseph Leon), and at the mercy of still not-seen columnist Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), early in Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957,

Famous scene, now outside 21 Club on West 52nd Street, dismissing cop Kello (Emile Meyer), columnist Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and press agent Sidney (Tony Curtis), cutting a deal in their special argot, in Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957.

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in their best roles as a power-mad newspaper columnist and the press agent who supplies him with dirt in Sweet Smell of Success (1957).