Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a noir starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster as a press agent and gossip columnist respectively. Both men play god - and find themselves in their own personal hell. A favourite of Martin Scorsese’s. Currently included with Amazon Prime in the U.K.
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After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
#JackLemmon #TonyCurtis being prepared by makeup artist #EmileLaVigne
#Bales2025FilmChallenge of February 14: a movie about romance, of the Mafia, for #StValentinesDay.
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
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Focus "enchaînés" 1/5 
La Chaîne (1958)
★★★☆
Une brillante chasse à l’homme, avec en toile de fond, le racisme systémique des 50’s.
La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/la_chaine/critique/313610213
In 1993 a cheap-o mummy flick based on a Poe story released to video stores. While The Mummy Lives is not an uncommon case of horror that went straight to video or cable in the era, what does make this a funny little movie is that it is one of the late era Cannon films and it also stars Tony Curtis as an Egyptian.
Check out the review from August 2021 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-2eK
I just watched Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956) and rated it 5/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapeze_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #Trapeze #CarolReed #BurtLancaster #TonyCurtis #GinaLollobrigida
Caught up on some retro film & TV over Xmas, amazing to see a middle-aged Tony Curtis doing what looks like pretty dangerous stunt work himself! The shots where you can see his face are him, and this is pre-CGI so there aren't any safety wires or crash mats being hidden. Insurance etc would never allow this today 
Curtis wasn't particularly known as an action hero, but in his younger days he was in a film about a trapeze artist, perhaps he picked up some skills there and kept in shape?
(This clip is from a series called "The Persuaders" from 1971)
I just watched Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) and rated it 10/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #SomeLikeItHot #BillyWilder #MarilynMonroe #TonyCurtis #JackLemmon #NobodysPerfect
This week, B-Movie Enema turns on the TV to check out the story of three dancers trying to make the most of their glamourous Vegas life in Portrait of a Showgirl.
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Burt Lancaster
(Nov 2, 1913 – Oct 20, 1994)
with Tony Curtis in
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
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#TonyCurtis at Pinewood Studios UK (1970) with the Jensen factory Intercepter demonstrator whic was sent down to him to try. He subsequently bought one and was his personal car while filming #ThePersuaders with Roger Moore.
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Kathryn Crosby, ‘7th Voyage of Sinbad’ Actress and Wife of Bing Crosby, Dies at 90
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For fans of #ThePersuaders, this is the photo for which one can use the hashtag #FeelTheBern.
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at Mogambo Night Club, Hollywood (1951)
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#Iwatched #Tootsie (1982) a movie about NYC actors, playing actors and one actress. It's quite meta. #DustinHoffman has to pretend being a woman to get a job, much like #TonyCurtis and #JackLemmon did. But this takes a closer look at the relationships touched by the charade and women's lib (which we always suspected just needed a man to do right). The scenes with #BillMurray are a highlight, other than that it's very busy with itself.
THE MANITOU (1978) was in constant TV circulation when I was a kid, to the extent that I misremembered it as a made-for-TV movie (which it ain't). Having revisited it this weekend as an adult, it feels like a) a weird career move for Tony Curtis, no matter what drugs he may have been ingesting, b) a bummer for Susan Strasberg, who gets to do essentially nothing, and c) a nice showcase for (occasional Klingon) Michael Ansara. The San Francisco setting is pleasant. #1970s #Horror #Movies #OldMovies #TonyCurtis
I was in love with Natalie Wood too, so I totally understand. I also like her response. #OldHollywood #NatalieWood #TonyCurtis
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Two worlds collide when Lord Brett Sinclair, a titled British man, and Danny Wilde, a Bronx-raised, self-made American, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs and protect the innocent.
#RogerMoore #TonyCurtis #JoanCollins on a break
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Let #Pride commence with
Trapeze!
#CarolReed #BurtLancaster (meow) #TonyCurtis (meowmeow) #GinaLollobrigida (meeeow) #film #cinemastodon
