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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS - One Sheet (27" x 41"); Very Good Folded

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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS - One Sheet (27  x 41 ); Very Good Folded
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

One Sheet (27" x 41")
Very Good Folded
United Artists, 1957

This poster from the popular Film-Noir drama, which depicts co-stars Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, is folded as issued and exhibits tears, areas of paper loss and insect holes with handwriting in the lower yellow field. This would make an excellent candidate for restoration.

The film Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, features Burt Lancaster as the ruthless Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unscrupulous press agent whom Hunsecker enlists to defame the rising jazz musician dating his cherished sister. The movie boasts a sharply clever script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, filled with pungently sharp dialogue, and the darkly glowing cityscapes of New York captured by Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, making it a fiercely biting portrayal of the survival-of-the-fittest mentality in 1950s Manhattan.

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