1957: Sweet Smell of Success

How's that for a setup: One man - a press agent - is constantly being humiliated and commanded around by a second man - an influential, and hence powerful, columnist - but you can't really feel for the first man because he is just as big a slimebag as the other one. Between the two of them, they try to break up the relationship between the columnist's sister and a jazz guitarrist, a client of the agent in this excellently constructed and fast-moving drama, which is notable for its razor-sharp dialogue. (7.5)