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| | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) |
 | | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is an ascerbic, dynamic and intense film that exposes the diseased under-side of New York City's glamorous night life, revealing brutality, capriciousness, greed, evil, psychological violence, corrupt American ambition, betrayal and cynicism. |
 | | The taut, little-seen, menacing, late film noir classic is the first American film of Scottish director Alexander Mackendrick, better known for Ealing Studios light comedies such as Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). |
 | | The film's central actor, Burt Lancaster also served, with his press agent Harold Hecht, as the head of the film's production company (with hits including The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Apache (1954), Vera Cruz (1954), Best Picture winner Marty (1955), and Trapeze (1956)). |
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