So much amazing dialog, for example: "Cats in the bag, and the bag's in the river" Used in Bosch: Legacy in 2021
@andy0liver Жыл бұрын
What a movie. It's all but a noir, yet bullets never bit so deep as the lines in this script, "You're dead, son. Get yourself buried." If you like your films dark, The Sweet Smell of Success is pitch black, get yourself a copy, son.
@js7dragon Жыл бұрын
The bullets are the quips!
@sidneyfields2850 Жыл бұрын
Another component to the film is James Wong Howe's great B&W photography, much of it shot on location at night that gives the film an authentic feel of what NYC looked like in the late 1950s.
@shazid1891 Жыл бұрын
Absolute masterpiece of cinema, simply the greatest film i have ever seen and easily my favorite film ever alongside Le Samouraï (1967)
@SternCC111 ай бұрын
The New York City shown here is merciless and was an inspiration to countless later films about the cities underbelly, such as “Midnight Cowboy” and “Taxi Driver”. Not to be missed, “Sweet Smell of Success”, is noir par excellence.
@iakona23 Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite movies. Thank you for covering it. I’m a big fan of the cinematographer and Director.
@LearningaboutMovies Жыл бұрын
you're welcome.
@patrickkelly5004 Жыл бұрын
Bravo, Dr. Matthews! Another bang on review.
@davidshane7883 Жыл бұрын
Love this movie! Great idea regarding subtitles - the dialogue is some of the best you can find anywhere.
@nettwench Жыл бұрын
It's a bookend with "A Face in the Crowd."
@domwalker6526 Жыл бұрын
One of the best movies showing how big the newspaper game was back in the day
@Draco-h1t Жыл бұрын
Glad to see you finally got around to this one. Its my second favorite movie of all time, just after The Wild Bunch. Would love to hear your opinion on that one as well. Love what you do, keep it up.
@LearningaboutMovies Жыл бұрын
thank you very much. thanks for watching. Yes, I haven't gotten to Peckinpah at all -- very good idea!
@Icecreamforcrowtoo Жыл бұрын
The Wild Bunch is great!
@zachmorley158 Жыл бұрын
Are you S. Craig Zahler?
@jimmyj1969 Жыл бұрын
A masterpiece!!
@patrickbricks6623 Жыл бұрын
what timing, just watched it last night! feeling slimy
@clumsydad7158 Жыл бұрын
haha ... 'slimy'
@lucajordan525 Жыл бұрын
Burt & Tony perfect as Batman & Robin
@dylanevans4523 Жыл бұрын
Great Video I love this film! will you make any videos on Cassavetes in the future?
@LearningaboutMovies Жыл бұрын
thank you. Yes, for about two years, I've had the 5-film Criteiron collection of Cassavetes sitting on my shelf, ready to be worked on. I would say I'll get to it in the next two years almsot for sure.
@aravis72 Жыл бұрын
Just watched this with a friend last night. I love film noir, and I’ve heard this considered noir, but I don’t see this discussed as much. Also, does anyone know the origin of Hunsecker’s quip: “2+2 and you have a chicken in a pot.” Was he purposely mixing expressions? I know there was that Herbert Hoover thing “a chicken in every pot,” but I didn’t get what he was trying to say to Falco. Great video!
@jimmyj1969 Жыл бұрын
Since you mentioned both movies, both Sweet Smell of Success and Ace in the Hole flopped in the box office, back in the day: anything spoiling the illusion of the American Dream of the 1950s did, as it seems...
@alankirkby4656 ай бұрын
Movie : Man in a white suit ( UK 1951 ) Same Director, this movie. Peace to all.
@markkodama69103 ай бұрын
Loved the movie. Saw it before.
@pablojuega3312Ай бұрын
La vi ayer, una locura de película, es magistral😮❤🎉
@georgegoodyear9631 Жыл бұрын
Light me, Sidney.
@ng2603 Жыл бұрын
"match" me, Sidney! Great line
@georgegoodyear9631 Жыл бұрын
@@ng2603 Thanks for the correction.
@carlh.h.22423 ай бұрын
@@ng2603”Not right this minute, J.J.”
@lorcan545 Жыл бұрын
On a rewatch it didn’t hold up. The Iago characterization of Burt Lancaster-what’s it all about, what does say? It’s just abstract. George Saunders’ Addison DeWitt in All About Eve is a real character, while Burt Lancaster’s character is just an idea, the same as his sister and her lover are just ideas. This innocent couple is a bit similar to the step-daughter and her boyfriend in Double Indemnity, but they have a bit more reality to them, as created and directed by Wilder and Chandler and Cain.
@TheObviousMetaverse Жыл бұрын
based on Walter Winchell !
@clumsydad7158 Жыл бұрын
very interesting, the more things change, the more they stay the same ... still gossipers and mud-slingers, just now a 1,000 variations of each in their own social media bubbles. i was looking up the movie 'how to succeed in business without really trying the other day' - that one not really the media angle, but just the cut-throat 1950s business angles... the business of america is yet business, it would seem
@Truthosaurus3 ай бұрын
Dallas has "integrity." JJ would rather have his sister with a blood sucking leech with some power he could wield perhaps? I've pondered on this script a lot and like The Godfather there is always something new to discover. Epic writing. There is even a clip from this film in the movie Free Enterprise. I'll let the individual take it upon themselves to see how it fits in.