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Sweet Smell of Success : Selling an Item

Sidney (Tony Curtis) tries to blackmail Leo (Lawrence Dobkin), one of Hunsecker's (Burt Lancaster) competitors, into printing a smear item about Dallas (Martin Milner).

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Film Language

ambient sound , blocking, continuity editing, dialogue, dolly in, establishing shot, following shot, framing, high angle, medium close-up, medium shot, over the shoulder shot, shot/reverse shot

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"Selling an Item" in Sweet Smell of Success. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, 1957, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3179

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