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2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #555
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Based on the novellette by Ernest Lehman
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements
Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister
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Special features: audio commentary by James Naremore; original theatrical trailer; documentary "Mackendrick : the man who walked away" (1986); documentary "James Wong Howe : cinematographer" (1986); new video interview with Neal Gabler about columnist Walter Winchell, insipiration for the character of Hunsecker; essays, short stories introducing the characters, notes about the film (in booklet)
Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; photographed by James Wong Howe ; music by Elmer Bernstein
Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, the Chico Hamilton Quintet
Rating: Not rated
DVD; NTCS, region 1; widescreen
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing