'Sweet Smell of Success by James Naremore' (BFI Film Classics Paperback)

James Naremore's masterly study of Sweet Smell of Success offers new information about the many revisions of the screenplay, the production company's negotiations with censors and the tense circumstances under which the film was shot and received by the public. He argues that it functioned as the revenge of the Hollywood left against a repressive political and media environment. He also provides a detailed commentary on the finished product, analysing the important contributions of its several talented creators.