Sweet Smell of Success

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">A box-office disaster upon original release, </span><em style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Sweet Smell of Success</em><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> is now considered one of best films of the 1950s—as well as a definitive cinematic statement on the dangers of media corruption. Burt Lancaster seethes through a thinly veiled portrait of powerful New York gossip columnist Walter Winchell as J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis gives perhaps his finest performance as the two-faced, sycophantic press agent Sidney Falco.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Some of the most dyspeptic dialogue in screen history is spewed courtesy of writers Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, all complemented by James Wong Howe’s cinéma vérité camerawork and a brassy, propulsive score by Elmer Bernstein. Keep your eyes and ears open as put-upon jazz cat Martin Milner sits in with the legendary Chico Hamilton Quintet (Paul Horn, flute; Fred Katz, cello; John Pisano, guitar; Carson Smith, bass; Chico Hamilton, drums). The film costars Susan Harrison, Emile Meyer, and Barbara Nichols (“What am I, a bowl of fruit? A tangerine that peels in a minute?”) J. J. Hunsecker said it best: “I love this dirty town!”</span>DramaPT1H36MNR2026-11-15USen
Burt Lancaster
Tony Curtis
Susan Harrison
Martin Milner
Sam Levene
Barbara Nichols
Alexander Mackendrick
James Hill
Sweet Smell of Success"Sweet Smell of Success"

Showtimes

November 15, 4:05 pm

Ambler Theater