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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS premieres in New York. Dir. Alexander Mackendrick. Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, based on Lehman's novel. Lacerating study in hubristic amorality centering on toxic, symbiotic relationship between a powerful, muck-raking NYC columnist (Burt Lancaster) & obsequious low-rent press agent (Tony Curtis). Elmer Bernstein's dissonent score menacingly stalks James Wong Howe's noirish monochromatic Manhattan nightscape. A masterpiece.
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