Double Feature: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, 1957, DON’T MAKE WAVES, 1967, October 13, 2012

Saturday, October 13 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, 1957, MGM/Park Circus, 96 min. Tony Curtis gives his greatest performance as cutthroat press agent Sidney Falco, willing to sell his soul to syndicated columnist Burt Lancaster for a few lines of copy, in director Alexander Mackendrick’s dark, glittering gem of a movie - one of the most frightening and seductive films of the 1950s. Brilliantly scripted by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, with stunning, mood-drenched black-and-white photography by the legendary James Wong Howe. “Match me, Sidney …” [35mm]
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtE8r-VTsPY
DON’T MAKE WAVES, 1967, Warner Bros., 97 min. Dir. Alexander Mackendrick. Wonderfully sly, wistful satire of Malibu beach culture in the ’60s from the director of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. East Coast schlep Tony Curtis reinvents himself as a sun-tanned swimming pool salesman, amid a carnival of muscle boys, surfer girls, astrologers, skydivers and more. One of the great lost comedies of the ’60s - as good as THE LOVED ONE or LORD LOVE A DUCK. With Sharon Tate. [35mm]
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwJP2egiL0

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