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Sweet Smell of Success (1957): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick. It scores 8.0 on IMDb, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 100 on Metacritic, 7.6 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 80 while Metacritic critics give it 100, a gap of 20 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 10 of 76 films from 1957 in our catalog and number 209 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene.

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