Sweet Smell of Success (DVD, 2011, 2-Disc Set, Criterion Collection)

Description: Last remaining parts of once 3,000+ DVD collections. Criterions were purchased new and the scanned for covers then sat on a shelf for nearly a decade.Directed by: Alexander MackendrickFeaturing: Burt Lancaster, Tony CurtisIn the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.Year: 1957 Time: 96 min.Technical SpecificationsFormat: DVDAspect Ratio: 1.66:1 (Anamorphic)Audio: English 1.0 Dolby Digital MonoResolution: 480p/29.97Subtitles: EnglishRegion: 1Discs: 2 Discs | DVD-9SupplementsNew audio commentary featuring film scholar James NaremoreMackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and othersJames Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with James HoweNew video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. HunseckerNew video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentorOriginal theatrical trailerA booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Giddens, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick’s book On Film-making, introduced by the book’s editor, Paul CroninDiscs are untouched and all inserts and packaging it moderately stressed. Feel free purchase multiple items to combine shipping.

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