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#dontmakewaves #1967 DIR #alexandermackendrick CAST #sharontate #tonycurtis #comedy #movie DP #philiphlathrop (à Malibu, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tACkpowqM/?igshid=99741g745ic0

Alexander Mackendrick - Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick was already known for his British Ealing Studios dark comedies, such as Whiskey Galore and the astonishingly dark The Ladykillers. Now he goes to the States to make a movie, one which is really a huge flop at the time but that now feels extremely fresh, vicious and with a complete "take no prisoners" attitude. Starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, both playing against-type as pretty horrible characters, the film was not very well received when it came out as fans of the actors were kind of repelled by what they were seeing on screen. Tony Curtis in particular was a heartthrob pretty boy and here he comes across as an amoral, greedy little shit in what is also probably his best role. This film is mean, there are no heroes here, only manipulators, set as it is in the world of the press and press agents, Lancaster plays a powerful columnist and Curtis is a press agent trying to get his clients featured on the column. The film has everything, from an incestuously tinged relationship to attempted suicide, beatings, depraved indifference to human life and also astonishing cinematography filmed on location and some of the sharpest most amazing dialogue ever put on screen. If you want to despair for humanity this is the film to watch, the acting, direction and writing are pretty much flawless, a masterpiece. (5/5) #cinema #cinephile #sweetsmellofsuccess #alexandermackendrick #tonycurtis #comedy #movie #moviereview #film #filmreviews #review #burtlancaster #1950s #poster #filmposter #movieposter #vicious (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3BRXUHlVQC/?igshid=wj3vql8vv7co

"I love this dirty town." Re-watched Sweet Smell of Success, New York beautifully-shot in crisp b&w. Kinetic directing, acting, writing. . . #burtlancaster #tonycurtis #alexandermackendrick #movies #film #bluray #arrowvideo #arrowacademy https://www.instagram.com/p/BvU7b-CH3cF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rzc3tdlphqko

#dontmakewaves #1967 #alexandermackendrick #tonycurtis #sharontate #comedy #NOquote #movie DP #philiphlathrop (à Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBolacDzXr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zolzl3zt8ybt

A year and a half after @adamchepe recommended I read. I completed it. And now I feel I got all of his $90K Columbia education in one book #iamsosmart #onfilmmaking #alexandermackendrick #filmmaking #nextoscarwinner https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl2EB4Il6ym/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=67finsdepdjr

Whoopsy via Daily Prompt: Bumble The Ladykillers, originally with Sir Alec Guinness and directed by Alexander Mackendrick, finds new life with a hilariously ineffectual yet persausive 

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sandy mackendrick on working relationship between the director and the actor