Sweet Smell of Success (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

In the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (THE LADYKILLERS), Burt Lancaster (BRUTE FORCE, THE LEOPARD) stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis (SOME LIKE IT HOT, SPARTACUS) as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he 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 (NOTORIOUS, BIGGER THAN LIFE) and Ernest Lehman (NORTH BY NORTHWEST, THE SOUND OF MUSIC) and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (THE THIN MAN, YANKEE DOODLE DANDY), SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison.

Starring: Martin Milner, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Chico Hamilton, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Emile Meyer, Emile G. Meyer, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Barbara Nichols, Edith Atwater, The Chico Hamilton Quintet, William Forrest, Joseph Leon, David White, Lawrence Dobkin, Lurene Tuttle, Queenie Smith, Autumn Russell, Jay Adler, Lewis Charles, Philip Van Zandt, James Hill, John Fiedler, Harry Tyler

Director: James Hill