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...fact, Philip Wright and John Noble are both pseudonyms for a benign, middle-aged (53) troubleshooter with a reassuringly ecclesiastical presence and a real-life surname that rhymes with his stock in trade: Leslie Arthur Burt Hubble, otherwise known to Fleet Street colleagues as "The Bishop...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...Rainmaker. Forecast: sunny comedy, with spells of metaphysical drizzle (Burt Lancaster), occasional electric storms (Katharine Hepburn), romantic sunset (TIME...
Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...
...heroes is Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster), the famous marshal of Dodge City; the other is Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), a dentist who is terribly fast on the draw. Wyatt saves Doc from a lynch mob. and that is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Doc has been living with a fallen woman (Jo Van Fleet), but pretty soon he throws her back in the gutter and takes up with Earp instead. He follows Earp everywhere, reeking of whisky and gratitude, and twice saves his life from bushwhackers. "Ya done it again. Doc." says Marshal Earp. making a manly effort...