The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Burt Lancaster plays columnist J.J. Hunsecker, who rules Broadway with an iron fist because of his influential column, which has the power to make or break careers. Though ostensibly noble, he has a weird fixation on the love life of his younger sister, Susan (Susan Harrison, above left) and isn’t above using his press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis, above right) to meddle in her affairs.
Curtis is impressively wily, trying to siphon off some of Hunsecker’s power, in this wonderfully twisty tour of 1950s Manhattan in which almost everyone is corrupt.
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