Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

1957 · 1 hr 36 min · Approved

Drama, Film-Noir

Directors

Alexander Mackendrick

Actors

  • Burt Lancaster
  • Tony Curtis
  • Susan Harrison

Credits: 4

Summary

A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

More about this movie

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.