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Motion Picture | 2012
Best Actor International | 1958 | Tony
Best Foreign Actor | 1958 | Tony
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1958 | Tony
Top Female Supporting Performance | 1958
Best Film | 1957 | Alexander
Budget 3,400,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,500,000 USD
Publicity materials for the film noted cinematographer James Wong Howe spread a film of Vaseline on Lancaster's glasses to create a shine and make his stare more menacing.
The character of J.J. Hunsecker is based on famed New York columnist Walter Winchell.
The Chico Hamilton Quintet was chosen to play the jazz band in the film partly because they represented the West Coast and cool jazz styles popular at the time, but also because they were "clean". The producers screened them for months to make sure they weren't drug users to avoid giving Walter Winchell anything that he could use against the film.
Ernest Lehman's original novella was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1950, whose editors refused to print a story with the word "smell" in the title. For this publication, the title was changed to "Tell Me About It Tomorrow", although it reverted to Lehman's original title when published in book form. Lehman took some comfort from the fact that his original title was a term which entered the language.
Burt Lancaster blamed Ernest Lehman's withdrawal due to illness for the film's box-office failure. At the after party for the premiere, Lancaster said, "'You didn't have to leave - you could have made this a much better picture. I ought to beat you up". The witty scribe replied, "Go ahead, I need the money."
"Sidney Falco: The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river."
"J.J. Hunsecker: I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic."
