The Big Knife (Blu-ray + DVD)
A Journey to the Dark Heart of Hollywood
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Also released as:
Big Knife
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Big Knife (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Arrow Academy
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger & Shelley Winters | |
| Performer: | Wesley Addy, Ilka Chase, Everett Sloane, Paul Langton, Nick Dennis, Bill Walker & Michael Winkelman | |
| Directed by | Robert Aldrich | |
| Edited by | Michael Luciano | |
| Screenwriting by | James Poe | |
| Original story by | Clifford Odets | |
| Composition by | Frank De Vol | |
| Art Direction by | William Glasgow | |
| Produced by | Robert Aldrich | |
| Director of Photography: | Ernest Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
88%
57%
Rating: 44/100 --
...an antiquated misfire.
Apollo Guide
Rating: 8/10 --
Fortunately, an outstanding cast helps make the transition from stage to screen a success.
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Film Threat
A Tinseltown exposé like a manicured hand clenched into a fist
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CinePassion
Overwrought and arty though it is in its less beguiling moments, this is an interesting melodrama...
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Maclean's Magazine
[Steiger] explodes like a neutron bomb, leaving the set standing but obliterating the people.
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n+1
Rating: A- --
A stinging film on Hollywood's studio system.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
THE BIG KNIFE, adapted from Clifford Odets's gripping play, is a dark, cynical probing of the film industry's behemoth studio system. When matinee idol Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) refuses to renew his studio contract, his career begins to take a turn for the worse. As autocratic movie mogul Stanley Hoff (Rod Steiger) stoops to blackmail to force him back onto the lot, Castle must also deal with being supported by his angry ex-wife, Marion (Ida Lupino). Director Robert Aldrich (THE DIRTY DOZEN) enfolds his critique of Hollywood's warped dream factory in a melancholic and mysterious psychodrama, and Palance is unnervingly convincing in the part of the washed-up Tinseltown star.
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