Alexander Mackendrick
A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy and unscrupulous press agent, to break up the affair by any means possible.