Sweet Smell of Success - James Naremore (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies mysterious adventurer

mysterious adventurer

reveals himself candidly and with insight

Richard Pryor

lyrical masterpiece links the transience of the travelling troupe with the inevitable mortality of life

marries him and encourages him to pursue playwriting

Sweet Smell of Success - James Naremore (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies mysterious adventurer'Sweet Smell of Success by James Naremore' (BFI Film Classics Paperback) James Naremore's masterly study of Sweet Smell of Success offers new information about the many revisions of the screenplay, the production company's negotiations with censors and the tense circumstances under which the film was shot and received by the public. He argues that it functioned as the revenge of the Hollywood left against a repressive political and media environment.