The Big Knife

About this movie

Academy Award®-winners Jack Palance (1992, Best Supporting Actor, “City Slickers”), Rod Steiger (1968, Best Actor, “In the Heat of the Night”) and two-time Oscar®-winner Shelley Winters (including 1966, Best Supporting Actress, “A Patch of Blue”) deliver knockout performances in this vicious “poison-pen letter to the movie business” (American Cinematique) that’s an extreme close-up of greed, lust...and murder! Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle (Palance) has it all...except for a way out. When he tries to leave show business, his tyrannical studio boss Stanley Hoff (Steiger) blackmails him with a lethal, covered-up secret that could land him in jail. A loose-lipped starlet (Winters) also knows too much, and when she starts talking, Hoff plans murder. Now, Charlie is more cornered than ever and on the brink of losing his wealth, his power...and his soul! The stellar supporting cast includes Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey and Jean Hagen.