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...Sweet Smell" is noir, oui - but as brisk as the winter nights on which Sidney refuses to wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their...
...BROADWAY SIDNEY...
...Sidney: "I am J.J. Hunsecker! It's who I'm gonna be, only bigger." - from the Broadway show "Sweet Smell of Success...
...mouth luscious and sneering, his eyes mascara'd like a silent-screen sheik, Curtis' Sidney is all bustle and rancor, ever moving, biting his nails, full of unfocused nervous energy. Coming into his office ("What is here? A wake?") to find his uncle and Dallas steaming about the smear item Sidney had planted, Curtis paces, runs fingers through his greasy hair, and then picks up their cue: they want a fight, OK, he'll bounce, circle, jab and jabber like a boxer in a Garden prelim. Out on 52nd Street with J.J., he pleads, "Stop beating me on the head...
...year-old "screwball sister." (Odd, since J.J. is at least twice as old; why couldn't she have been made his daughter?) She's kooky and vulnerable, always looking as if she's just been slapped or thinks she's about to be. When she questions Sidney's "friendship" with J.J. - "Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?" - she might be speaking to herself. And her boyfriend is just too square to compute as a 50s jazz musician. (What's he got that she wants? Sidney's answer: "Integrity. Acute. Like...