The Big Knife (1955)

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6.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Robert Aldrich

Starring (View all)

Jack Palance
Charles Castle

Ida Lupino
Marion Castle

Wendell Corey
Smiley Coy

Jean Hagen
Connie Bliss

Rod Steiger
Stanley Shriner Hoff

Ilka Chase
Patty Benedict

Everett Sloane
Nat Danziger

Wesley Addy
Horatio 'Hank' Teagle

Written by

Clifford Odets
(stage play)

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The Big Knife

11 years, 10 months ago at May 2 18:55

JxSxPx

The problem isn’t that the film isn’t any good, on the contrary, it’s quite entertaining, and it’s that the script never sells the central problem as some huge life-altering event. Somehow the trials and tribulations of an actor being strong-armed into signing a seven-year contract and wanting to expand into more artistic and challenging material just seems too slight for this kind of gran... read more

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9 years, 2 months ago at Dec 8 21:46

fernando

It has so much conviction put in demonstrate its antihollywood thesis, that has an ugly charm. I like Aldrich´s rudeness. Palance and Steiger, one brute one brute and refined, are perfect matches for this torrid acting. Lupino, Hagen (the best), and winters ok.

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Release date: 25 November 1955
UPC: 027616880147

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"Charlie Castle (Jack Palance), a famous actor, has the usual trappings of stratospheric success, including a house in Bel Air, a beautiful wife, Marion (Ida Lupino), adoring groupies, a blossoming sense of refinement with which he’s clearly uncomfortable, and the ability, should he exercise it, to do whatever he pleases so long as he honors the Man. The Big Knife’s plot has no shock value for a 21st-century American. Total chaos and disbelief in everything are the new breeding grounds for co"