Sweet Smell of Success (1957)





Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 4241

Books on Sweet Smell of Success

James Naremore
Sweet smell of success
New York, 2010

Books with substantial mentioning of Sweet Smell of Success

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

David Fury
The Cinema History of Burt Lancaster
Minneapolis, MN, 1989

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Books with an entry on Sweet Smell of Success

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on Sweet Smell of Success

Colin Kennedy, Sweet Smell of Success, in: Empire, nr. 274 (April), 2012 pp. 140-141

Articles with substantial mentioning of Sweet Smell of Success

Alain Silver, James Wong Howe (1899-1976), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002