The Big Knife (1955) will be available on Blu-ray + DVD September 5th From Arrow Video
Mere months after delivering one of the definitive examples of film noir with Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavor to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets’ stage play, The Big Knife.
Charles Castle, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn’t taking the news too well, and he’ll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line – even if means exposing dark secrets…
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, The Big Knife also boasts a remarkable cast list including Jack Palance (Shane) as Castle and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront) as Hoff,...
Mere months after delivering one of the definitive examples of film noir with Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavor to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets’ stage play, The Big Knife.
Charles Castle, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn’t taking the news too well, and he’ll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line – even if means exposing dark secrets…
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, The Big Knife also boasts a remarkable cast list including Jack Palance (Shane) as Castle and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront) as Hoff,...
- 8/25/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Angel,” “Child,” “Little Chum,” “Toots,” “Bozo,” “Handsome,” “Husband Dear,” “Sweet,” “Lady Pry,” “Monkey,” “Boy Friend,” “Lovey,” “Dimples,” “Tiger,” “Chickie,” “Beau Heart”: The rococo endearments just don’t stop in Clifford Odets’s 1949 play The Big Knife. They are, as one of its movie types might say, as plentiful and overripe as the fruit rotting outside in the Hollywood heat. So is the dialogue. A bar is a “lemonade stand” where, instead of asking for some seltzer, you bark, “Carbonate me.” The latest bad flick is an “armful of roses and a basket of kittens.” And of course self-disgust gets its own genre of poetry: “I don’t need you to go to hell with. I can splash up my own mud and neon lights!”That last gem is spoken by movie star Charles Castle (né Cass — the nicknames aren’t the only things that are fake). But it might...
- 4/17/2013
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
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