Introducing J.J Hunsecker

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Uploaded by on Aug 13, 2010

Burt Lancaster's rendition of the Ernest Lehman scripted, Jame Wong Howe photographed, and Alexander Mackendrick directed "Sweet Smell of Success". In this scene we're introduced to the ominous force that is driving the entire weight of the movie, J.J Hunsecker, we are let into his world, how he cloaks his deceptive self-destructive character with candid remarks, double standards, and a false sense of entitlement to take from his friends and screw over everybody else.

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  • Heavens to Clifford Odets! If Sidney Falco was any more oily he'd be worse for the environment than the Valdez oil spill !!! He put the "O" in odious.  JJ is no slacker in that dept himself! THANKS for posting...a powerful clip from a powerful flick! Classic stuff !!!!

  • Using camera movement, editing, and cinematography each adds to the narrative

  • @rkg77

    Don't feel bad -- I had to look it up! I've seen this movie about 20 times but couldn't remember the guy's name.

  • @bonzohart Wow-- you're right! I could have sworn it was Mel. And I thought I knew a lot of character actors...

  • @rkg77

    Although it does look a LOT like Mel, it's actually a guy named Jay Adler.  Fantastic movie on every level.

  • Great film-- isn't that Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny???

  • Burt Lancaster is such a bad ass in this movie!

  • this scene represents the reality of the price of worldly sucess fame power in our 3D earthly dimension be enslaved so that you may enslave others a lovely pecking order totum pole of sycophants and rulers name any famous person you admire and they have a master you know nothing about

    so you wanna be famous then you are gonna be both pitcher & catcher in the end pun intended thanks for the upload a real lesson of a scene

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