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Sweet Smell of Success : The Sister and the Guitarist

Sidney (Tony Curtis) goes to a club to spy on popular jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) and Susie (Susan Harrison), Hunsecker's (Burt Lancaster) younger sister.

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blocking, continuity editing, dialogue, dolly out, dolly shot, eyeline match, framing, lighting, low angle, medium close-up, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, source music, tracking shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American

"The Sister and the Guitarist" in Sweet Smell of Success. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, 1957, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3177

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