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Big Knife, The - (Original Trailer - textless)

An unscrupulous movie producer (Rod Steiger) blackmails an unhappy actor (Jack Palance) into signing a new contract in The Big Knife (1955), directed by Robert Aldrich.

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Big Knife, The - Open, What A Guy
Richard Boone reads playwright Clifford Odets' opening to Robert Aldrich's blistering Hollywood drama The Big Knife, 1955, and introducing star Jack Palance.
Big Knife, The - Drunken Blackbirds
Jean Hagen (as "Connie") is the unabashed vamp visiting drunken movie star Charlie (Jack Palance), making clear she knows her husband is his fall-guy, in Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife, 1955.
Big Knife, The - Express The Divine Will
Rod Steiger (as Hoff) makes the thug studio boss the smartest guy in the room, with hack Smiley (Wendell Corey) visiting star Charlie (Jack Palance) and agent Nat (Everett Sloane), in Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife, 1955.
Big Knife, The - God Bless
Movie Star Charlie (Jack Palance) is jousting with columnist Patty (Ilka Chase) when his wife Marion (Ida Lupino) surprises both by revealing she's been listening, in The Big Knife, 1955, directed by Robert Aldrich from Clifford Odets' play.

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