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Sweet Smell of Success : Planted Pot

Sidney (Tony Curtis) plants marijuana in Dallas' (Martin Milner) coat, so Kello (Emile Meyer), a cop paid off by Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), can beat him.

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close-up, dialogue, dissolve, dolly in, establishing shot, everyday mise-en-scene, framing, full shot, hard lighting, high angle, medium close-up, medium shot, music, diegetic, over the shoulder shot, pan, point-of-view shot, sound link, source music, tracking shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"Planted Pot" in Sweet Smell of Success. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, 1957, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3182

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