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