The Big Knife
Robert Aldrich (1955)

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1955, 111 MINS, US

  • Dir: Robert Aldrich
  • Prod: Robert Aldrich
  • Scr: James Poe
  • Ph: Ernest Laszlo
  • Ed: Michael Luciano
  • Mus: Frank DeVol
  • Art Dir: William Glasgow

    CAST:

  • Jack Palance
  • Ida Lupino
  • Wendell Corey
  • Shelley Winters
  • Jean Hagen
  • Rod Steiger

    (Associates & Aldrich)

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    Film is of the Sunset Blvd. and/I Star Is Born genre, an inside Hollywood story. It's sometimes so brittle and brutal as to prove disturbing. It differs from the Clifford Odets stage play of 1949, when John Garfield starred.

    Rod Steiger vividly interprets the Janus aspects of the studio head who knows when to con and cajole Jack Palance into a 14-year deal. He has no compunction about staging an 'accidental death' of one of those 'casting couch contractees' (Shelley Winters), foiled by his laconic and resourceful publicity director.

    Wendell Corey is properly 'the cynical Celt', Steiger's resourceful hatchet-man in the clinches. Ida Lupino scores as the realistic wife who wants Palance to forget the Hollywood loot and return to his 'ideals'.


    3 STARS OUT OF 5



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    al pacino | michelle pfeiffer

    yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider

    the godfather | the godfather part ii
    marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino
    laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly
    olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang
    jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield
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