Sweet Smell of Success

 

Year: 1957

Time: 96 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 555

Release Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2011

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.66:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 New audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore   Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others   James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with James Howe   New video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker   New video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor   Original theatrical trailer   A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick’s book On Film-making, introduced by the book’s editor, Paul Cronin