Sweet Smell of Success by Ernest Lehman, Clifford Odets

Sweet Smell of Success

Ernest Lehman, Clifford Odets

178 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction classics play informative tense slow-paced

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Do not combine this screenplay with the novelette it's based on.With lines so sharp you could shave yourself with them, Sweet Smell of Success is the smartest, most cynical American film of the 1950s. Written by Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, ...

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