
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Stream on DemandSean Axmaker... one of the most lacerating and vicious visions of the predatory urban world in the American cinema, and one accomplished without a single murder, gunshot or pulled knife. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeNew York never looked as thrillingly sordid as it does in this scabrous masterpiece. |
| Film ThreatMatthew SorrentoIt all begins with the title. The irony aside, its lightness and alliteration suggest the last breaths of one of the film's victims. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchThe film is a masterpiece, intelligent Hollywood cinema at its best. |
| Empire MagazineColin KennedyWith some of the sharpest dialogue ever cut in Hollywood, only on the most superficial level is this a movie about gossip and publicity. We're talking show business. We're talking America. We're talking cast-iron classic. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldSandra HallIt's about hype and, although it was made decades before the word was coined, it still has eye-opening things to convey about the slippery business of celebrity journalism. Such is the value of first-hand experience. |
| Reno Gazette-JournalForrest HartmanExcellent drama containing one of Tony Curtis' greatest performances. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksSweet 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... |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA fizzingly clever big-city satire and deeply strange late noir classic. |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisThe main incentive to see this movie is its witty, pungent and idiomatic dialogue, such as you never hear on the screen anymore in this age of special-effects illiteracy. |