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91% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 60% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Movie star Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff (Rod Steiger) when he refuses to sign a new...
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All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. A Clifford Odets theatrical piece morphs into a Hollywood-insider movie, and while the staginess remains, it...
This stark film, shot in black and white and 1.85:1 widescreen, is a searing depiction of an idealistic actor caught in the clutches of a powerful, merciless studio boss who will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, to get his way.
The Big Knife is a 1955 American melodrama film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase, and Everett Sloane.
The Robert Aldrich movie adaptation of Clifford Odets' play, The Big Knife, has been praised to the skies for its boldness in attacking the Hollywood studio system in its prime, criticized for being badly written, with stereotyped people going through the motions, and for lacking any real depth or insight.
Sep 10, 2012 · Aldrich coaxes independent, intense performances from Clifford Odets' wordy and stagebound script, which is left to wrestle with its own rather precious liberal conscience while Aldrich ...
The Big Knife: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen. Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
