Sweet Smell of Success Reviews

Spencer 2022-03-21 09:03:14

Every scene is dense and delicate.

New York in 1957 was very much like today's Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, impetuous and prosperous. The long shadows on the streets of Manhattan at night are also a breeding ground for sin and ugliness, where people degenerate and succeed; the...

Allen 2022-02-07 14:46:25

Fast paced, well acted, tautly directed, and carefully scripted, this superb thriller, in a realistic way, develops a gut-wrenching story, depicts some memorable characters and above all represents the filmmaking of the highest level. It is so dark that you almost feel despair about the world. The...

Brandon 2022-02-07 14:46:25

Film noir, or classic film noir to be precise, may be the most unique kind of existence in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Although the life cycle is less than 20 years (starting in 1940 and ending with Orson Welles' "Gone with the Wind" in 1958), its unique image style and profound characterization...

Kody 2022-02-07 14:46:25

British director Alexander Mackendrick made several classic comedies in the 1940s and 1950s, the most influential being 1955's The Ladykillers, a black crime comedy. After that, McKendrick went to Hollywood to develop, and soon made the most outstanding work of his directorial career , "Sweet Smell...

Domenick 2022-02-07 14:46:25

Hansek is the most influential columnist in New York, his articles can make people famous overnight, but also can bring people down. Law Ke is an insignificant propaganda broker who dreams of entering the upper classes.

These two people are unscrupulous in their pursuit of money and status, which is...

Al 2022-02-07 14:46:25

People are corrupted in a highly developed business society and eventually sink to the bottom of hell. That's the theme of this movie.         In this sense, Sidney is essentially no different from his boss, JJ. Only the social status is different, one is the master and the other is his slave.... 

Carey 2022-02-07 14:46:25

The film begins with Sidney (Tony Curtis) buying a newspaper from a street newsstand, walking into a bar, and can't wait to flip through a page. After a quick look, he was quite disappointed to put away the newspaper and walked out of the bar, throwing the newspaper into the roadside wastebasket....

Briana 2022-02-07 14:46:25

1. The screenwriter and director showed no mercy at all. People with a little status and power here were using their status and relationships to carry out all kinds of dirty deeds. At that time, there was a pen and a program, and they became the right to speak. People in the media are really in...

Newell 2022-02-07 14:46:25

It is pitch black, both visually and metaphorically, in Alexander Mackendrick's SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, his first American film, the former blackness is prominently reflected through director of photography James Wong Howe's cracking night-view of a bustling NYC under the sharp panchromatic hue,...

Chase 2022-02-07 14:46:25

The film's lines are extremely brilliant, and can be regarded as the biggest highlight of the film alongside Huang Zongzhan's cinematography, Curtis and Lancaster's acting skills, and Elmer Berstein's soundtrack. Among them, Sidney and JJ's group scenes with congressmen, actresses, and agents are...