The Big Knife (1955)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Escritores:

Clifford Odets (play)
James Poe (adapted for the screen by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 noviembre 1955 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Cine Negro

Plot:

Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career...

Plot Keywords:

Hollywood | Actor | Marriage | Husband Wife Relationship | Actor's Life

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Powerful fifties' drama

Reparto

Jack Palance	...	Charles Castle
Ida Lupino	...	Marion Castle
Wendell Corey	...	Smiley Coy
Jean Hagen	...	Connie Bliss
Rod Steiger	...	Stanley Shriner Hoff
Shelley Winters	...	Dixie Evans
Ilka Chase	...	Patty Benedict
Everett Sloane	...	Nat Danziger
Wesley Addy	...	Horatio "Hank" Teagle
Paul Langton	...	Buddy Bliss
Nick Dennis	...	Mickey Feeney
Bill Walker	...	Russell
Michael Winkelman	...	Billy Castle (as Mike Winkelman)

También conocida como:

La podadora (Spain) [es]

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Sutherland Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Associates & Aldrich Company, The

Trivialidades:

Shot in 15 days.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: The camera and operator are visibly reflected in one scene in the living room.

Citas:

[Wanting Charlie to woo Dixie, who's talking too much about Charlie's dangerous 'secret']
Smiley Coy: Call her.
Charlie Castle: All right. Anything for my art.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Best of Film Noir (1999) (V)

Powerful fifties' drama

The Big Knife is a mostly good adaptation of a Clifford Odets play about a Hollywood actor who's being blackmailed into studio servitude while trying to patch up his failing marriage. This is a movie for which the word powerful was truly invented. Most of the film takes place on one set and places heavy emphasis on speeches from the individual characters for its really riveting moments (as I would expect from a stage play), but those moments definitely get across. The whole cast is good, but Jack Palance in a nuanced and fiery performance as the actor Charlie Castle, and Rod Steiger, giving a deeply felt and passionate realization of the corrupt studio boss are nothing short of superb. The screenplay is full of smart, incisive, biting dialogue as well. Except for a melodramatic turn at the end, that, for me, takes a lot of the edge off the story, this is a well-acted film that is solid, though not spectacular, entertainment. 3*** out of 4