There aren't enough superlatives to describe the seriously underrated masterpiece that is 1957's "Sweet Smell of Success". Tony Curtis manages to upstage, in many scenes, the one and only Burt Lancaster who gives one of the most diabolical on screen performances as J.J. Hunsecker-a ruthless king maker/breaker in N.Y.C.'s kill or be killed newspaper columnist and publicity scene. If you don't want to know how the real sausage is made in entertainment, politics, business, etc., then skip this brutal truth of movie platinum!
Only Mel Brooks could've taken WWII and made it a cinematic comedy classic! Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel and Dick Shawn are just a few...
Girrrl... get yo' man! Joan Crawford vs. Norma Shearer for the title of Mrs. High Valued Man! YouTube Facebook
Fred Mac Murray learns he is the smartest man in the room only when he's alone. This gold standard/template for the film noir genre...