#269 – Sweet Smell of Success | Directed by Alexander Mackendrick (with Rolo Tony of These Guys Got Juice)

Tune in as Rolo Tony (@PoorOldRoloTony and These Guys Got Juice) jumps back onto 2CC for a breakdown of Sweet Smell of Success, the 1957 film noir about the scheme that a gossip columnist and a publicist cook up to sabotage a relationship that the columnist’s 19-year-old sister is in. Calling someone a cookie full of arsenic and other pieces of endlessly quotable dialogue, the vehemently anti-Communist attitudes of this time period, the unusually pessimistic mood dripping off of a movie from this era, and the deeply uncomfortable nature of JJ and Susie’s dynamic roll around as some of the subject matter in this episode.Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene, Joe Frisco, Barbara Nichols, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, Chico Hamilton, Jay Adler, William Forrest, Lewis Charles, Lurene Tuttle, and Joseph Leon.Spoilers start at 25:25The Coded Queer Lives of a Hollywood Classic: David Thomson on the subtextual sexuality in Sweet Smell of SuccessCreate your podcast today! #madeonzencastrHere’s how you can learn more about Palestine and IsraelHere’s how you can keep up-to-date on this genocideHere’s how you can send eSIM cards to Palestinians in order to help them stay connected onlineGood Word:• Rolo Tony: Brute Force• Arthur: The Traveler by Joseph EckertReach out at [email protected] if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms!Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, and TikTok: @arthur_ant18Follow Arthur on Bluesky: @arthur-ant18Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscriticFollow the podcast on Instagram: @twocentscriticpodFollow Arthur on GoodreadsCheck out 2 Cents Critic Linktree