| | Big Knife DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Action DVDs, Dramas Movies, Film Noir | | Starring | Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ida Lupino, Everett Sloane, Wesley Addy, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Ilka Chase | | Director | Robert Aldrich | | Cinematographer | Ernest Laszlo | | Composer | Frank de Vol | | Editor | Michael Luciano | | Producer | Robert Aldrich | | Production Designer | William Glasgow | | Screenwriter | James Poe | | Source Writer | Clifford Odets |
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles 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. Clifford Odets' play originally appeared on Broadway in 1949, with John Garfield in the leading role (taken by Jack Palance in the film). Big Knife | List Price | $19.98 (You save $6.43) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1955 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  19626  | | CD Universe Part number | 4934019 | | Catalog number | 1003896 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 15, 2002 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 114 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Black & White; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Mono Sound; Digital Sound; Widescreen; Black & White; Subtitled |
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