Sweet Smell of Success has superior acting and great writing. Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster are unforgettable. The story is based on Walter Winchell and his various nefarious ways of getting people through his columns by dishing the dirt. If there's a film that Tony Curtis came the closest to earning an Oscar, it's this one.

Fans of Some Like It Hot should read the book by Tony Curtis; it's instructive and very funny. There are many terrific moments as well. While Jack Lemmon steals the show, Tony Curtis has a certain range which allows him to make three of his characters work. Thus, he was robbed of an Oscar nomination.

The Defiant Ones is a longtime classic about racial harmony. It's more well known for Sidney Poitier than Tony Curtis. Both were nominated for Best Actor with Sidney Poitier being the first black person ever to earn it while Tony Curtis gives a strong performance. They did all of the hard work in the clay pit and elsewhere, describing the filming experience as the most physically exhausting of their careers. The train scene is dramatic as well.

Trapeze is a fun movie to watch, being the right avenue to show off Burt Lancaster's acrobatics background. Performance-wise, Gina Lollobrigida steals the show by setting up a weird love triangle. Shot on location in Paris, the filmmakers have done the smart thing by including as many acts in the background just to keep the eyes busy, hence the Wellesian effect. Not to miss is Tony Curtis as the flyer.

The technicolor serves Tony Curtis well as he looks impossibly handsome. It's why the girl fell in love with his character. She sure forgot about her father's death in record time. The longer the show goes on, the better the group's chemistry is, allowing me to get to used to their adventure. Frank Lovejoy is an asset while Mary Murphy is familiar as the love attraction for Marlon Brando's character in The Wild One.

Spartacus contains the most infamous scene of Tony Curtis' career which had been deleted for decades until it was restored in 1991. It's when he had a conversation with Laurence Olivier on the subject of snails and oysters. Unfairly, along with Trapeze and Some Like It Hot, many viewers thought Tony Curtis was gay, and he had to debunk the myth all of his life.

Kings Go Forth is an uneven war picture. Yet the show improves when Tony Curtis starts to appear more often and gets to have Natalie Wood as his love interest. The first moment that he embraced her, she looked a lot beautiful, and there was strong chemistry between these two. Hence, it's too bad they didn't do a black-and-white romance movie of their own.

The great Peter Ustinov serves up a delicious dish in Murder in Three Acts which is based on an Agatha Christie story. Of course, all of her adapted films are always fun to watch because of one common theme: murder mystery. Hard to believe is the wonderful Tony Curtis who hadn't done a meaningful film in so many years.

The very first time I saw Criss Cross, there was this dance scene with Yvonne De Carlo and came along a very good-looking man who only appeared for two minutes, and I was like, "Is that...Tony Curtis?" It's his screen debut, and when the movie came out, he got so much fan mail that his profile raised considerably. Happily, it led to two more films with Burt Lancaster: Trapeze and Sweet Smell of Success.