Sweet Smell of Sucess

Sweet Smell of Success is a good example of a noir-ish movie, with a jazz score, but with two leading men, neither of whom are particularly attractive characters.

Lancaster exudes power as the Broadway columnist, J J Hunsecker, and while Curtis’ Sidney Falco has his attractive moments, he’s mainly sleazy and obsequious.

This is Card #3 from the original first release set of US Lobby Cards and shows Falco (Tony Curtis) using his powers of persuasion on Rita (Barbara Nichols).