Research Catalog

Title

Sweet smell of success / United Artists Pictures Inc. ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, [2000]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994
• Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
• Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
• Hill, James, 1916-2001
• Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993
• United Artists (Firm)
• MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
• MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)

Description

1 videocassette (approximately 1 hr. 36 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.

Summary

A powerful film about a ruthless journalist (Lancaster) and an unscrupulous press agent (Curtis) who'll do anything to achieve success.

Series Statement

Vintage classics

Uniform Title

MGM/UA vintage classics.

Subjects

• Feature films
• Journalists > New York (State) > New York > Drama
• Press agents > New York (State) > New York > Drama
• American fiction > 20th century > Film adaptations
• New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures

Note

• From the novelette by Ernest Lehman.
• Videocassette of the c1957 motion picture.
• "MGM/UA Home Video"--Opening screen.
• Digital video transfer.
• Formatted to fit TV screen.
• Not rated.
• Contains the original theatrical trailer.

Credits (note)

• Photographer, James Wong Howe ; music scorer and conductor, Elmer Bernstein ; songs, Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz.

System Details (note)

• VHS format.

Language (note)

• Closed captioned.

ISBN

0792843118

OCLC

ocm43413135

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries