Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Writers: Clifford Odets; Ernest Lehman

From novella: Sweet Smell of Success by Ernest Lehman

Music Scored and Conducted by: Elmer Bernstein

Producer: James Hill

Keywords: Drama, Film Noir, Jazz, New York

Gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, clearly modeled after Walter Winchell, can change the fortune of any celebrity at whim. Sidney Falco, press agent who desperately needs the columnist's support for his clients, is roped into sabotaging the romance between Hunsecker's sister Susie and jazz musician Steve Dallas, unworthy in Huckecker's eyes. Entered 1993 into the National Film Registry.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tony Curtis	Actor	3-Jun-1925	29-Sep-2010	Some Like It Hot
Burt Lancaster	Actor	2-Nov-1913	20-Oct-1994	Elmer Gantry
Martin Milner	Actor	28-Dec-1931	6-Sep-2015	LAPD officer Pete Malloy on Adam-12
Barbara Nichols	Actor	30-Dec-1929	5-Oct-1976	Sweet Smell of Success

CAST

Burt Lancaster	...   J. J. Hunsecker
Tony Curtis	...   Sidney Falco
Introducing
Susan Harrison	...   Susan Hunsecker
Featuring
Martin Milner	...   Steve Dallas
Jeff Donnell	...   Sally
Sam Levene	...   Frank D' Angelo
Joe Frisco	...   Herbie Temple
Barbara Nichols	...   Rita
Emile Meyer	...   Harry Kello
Edith Atwater	...   Mary
and
The Chico Hamilton Quintet	...   Themselves

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