Sweet Smell of Success (Criterion Collection) AEC Music When Bernard Purdie is not

When Bernard Purdie is not helping some big star the likes of Aretha Franklin

the group's unique stylings are the result of production and arrangements by Julian Kaufman and Charlie Kilgore

and the arrangements are similarly bold and cinematic

creepy amulets and even creepier artwork

Sweet Smell of Success (Criterion Collection) AEC Music When Bernard Purdie is notIn the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (THE LADYKILLERS), Burt Lancaster (BRUTE FORCE, THE LEOPARD) stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis (SOME LIKE IT HOT, SPARTACUS) as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up and coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured