Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - The Golden Hour Film Podcast Ep. 19

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 film noir about a shady newspaper columnist JJ Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) who employs press agent Sydney Falco (Tony Curtis) to end the relationship between JJ's sister Suzie (Susan Harrison) and local Jazz player Steve Dallas (Martin Milner). It's an underrated gem from the 1950s directed by the equally underrated Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers), and this week Harry & Shane will discuss what they think of the film on The Golden Hour Film Podcast: Film Club.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:26 SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS
5:09 About the film
7:39 Beginning of the film
15:28 JJ's introduction
18:45 A plan is hatched
21:26 Sidney's underhanded tactics
26:48 The smear campaign against Steve
29:25 Sidney is confronted
34:59 JJ's controlling nature
37:53 Steve and Susie break-up
39:23 Steve is set up
42:20 The plan begins to fall apart
45:43 Ambiguous ending???
46:27 Our thoughts
49:47 Next week's episode reveal...
52:48 What we've been watching recently
1:00:11 Outro





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