Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
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Wikidata Q1183253, film, IMDb tt0051036, TMDB 976: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
The Rewatchables' awards
Picked in other episodes
- Double feature (pick) for Margin Call (2011): Koppelman's other pairing, offered in the same breath as the Wolf of Wall Street. Brian Koppelman · 1:23:57
Who talked about it
The Big Picture
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Burt Lancaster: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Burt Lancaster → Sweet Smell of Success.
Lancaster dared to play hated characters and pursue strange films, especially Sweet Smell of Success.
“his willingness to be hated as a character in movies, especially sweet smell of success, but many of his movies.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:54:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner, first at 1:30:26, 1 time
- recommended in The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman, first at 1:23:57, 1 time
- passing in The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag, first at 0:54:39, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free), first at 0:10:18, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Burt Lancaster → Sweet Smell of Success.
Lancaster dared to play hated characters and pursue strange films, especially Sweet Smell of Success.
“his willingness to be hated as a character in movies, especially sweet smell of success, but many of his movies.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:54:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Burt Lancaster: actor (The Big Picture, Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag)
- Burt Lancaster: co-star (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))
- Tony Curtis: lead (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))