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Sweet Smell of Success : Opening Sequence

Press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) picks up a newspaper with a column by J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster).

Opening Sequence

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Credits, Opening, continuity editing, dolly out, dolly shot, everyday mise-en-scene, explanatory insert, full shot, low angle, medium long shot, montage, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, traveling shot

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

"Opening Sequence" in Sweet Smell of Success. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, 1957, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3175

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