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2011/12 Season

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

USA 1957 (PG) 96 minutes Directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Ipswich Film Theatre - 23 April 2012 - 7.30pm Starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, this tells of a devious and despicable press agent who helps a New York columnist to destroy his sister’s romance. Decadent characters and photographic detail provide a moody and brassy melodrama of journalistic corruption. AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Outstanding moral and artistic film. Should be compulsory viewing for News International staff; A study in megalomania and repressed incestious desire; Remarkable for the female stereotypes; Brash, ugly, frenetic and implausable. Very American; An oversimplistic plot with wooden acting even worse than I remember it from the first viewing.

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