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    Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success

    Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre

    February 27, 2011


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    If you like your drama mordant and dark, with hints of the perverse, then Sweet Smell of Success is definitely your movie. Filmed in a noir style on the streets of New York City, the film provides a portrait of two fascinating but often loathsome Manhattan show-biz characters. Burt Lancaster exudes a malevolent charisma as vicious Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker (supposedly modeled on Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis (in what is probably his best dramatic performance) plays toadying Sidney Falco, a desperate press agent who will stoop to anything for the crumbs that Hunsecker doles out. In their nighttime world, the streets of Manhatten glow with an aura of malice thanks to cinematography by the famed James Wong Howe. This is a film that will hold you spellbound, even as you recoil at the way that power can corrupt and defame. Don’t miss it! (Bill Roth)

    Alexander McKendrick, US, 1957, NR, 96m
     


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        The Colonial Theatre

        227 Bridge Street
        Phoenixville, PA 19460

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        $8 / $6 / $5

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 27, 2011

        Times:

        2:00PM

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