Review by Bill Mann at The Guardian IMDb, the movie site, says nothing about blubbing. No warning to keep the tissues at the ready. In fact, Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983) is often described as a comedy. Quirky, wry, gentle. Those are the other words most commonly used. Weepy, no. And the storyline does not […]
By A.H. WEILER Published: June 28, 1957 THE frenetic and often sordid machinations of a power-mad Broadway columnist, the unprincipled press agent who is his hatchet man and the avid coterie that surrounds them are savagely dissected in Sweet Smell of Success>, which came to Loew’s State yesterday. It is not a towering, universal theme […]
