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Author:

Big knife (Motion picture)

Title:

The big knife / The Associates & Aldrich presents ; adapted for the screen by James Poe ; produced and directed by Robert Aldrich ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Edition:

Special edition.

Publisher:

Arrow Academy,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).

Subject:

Motion picture actors and actresses--Drama.
Executives--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Drama.
Motion picture industry--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Drama.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Drama.
Executives.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Motion picture industry.
California--Los Angeles.
California--Hollywood.--Hollywood.
Film noir.
Crime films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Crime films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Film noir.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Aldrich, Robert, 1918-1983, film director. film director.
Poe, James, 1923-1980, screenwriter.
Palance, Jack, 1919-2006, actor.
Lupino, Ida, 1918-1995, actor.
Corey, Wendell, 1914-1968, actor.
Hagen, Jean, 1924-1977, actor.
Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002, actor.
Chase, Ilka, 1905-1978, actor.
Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965, actor.
Winters, Shelley, actor.
DeVol, Frank, composer (expression)
Laszlo, Ernest, director of photography.
Luciano, Michael, editor of moving image work.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963. Big knife.
Associates & Aldrich Company, presenter. presenter.
Arrow Films (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Wide screen (1.85:1). Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Ilka Chase, Everett Sloane, Shelley Winters. Title from container. Videodisc release of 1955 motion picture. From the stage play by Clifford Odets. Special features: audio commentary by film critics Glenn Kenny and Nick Pinkerton; documentary Bass on titles-Saul Bass discusses some of his work; TV promo; theatrical trailer.

Summary:

Charles Castle, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn't taking the news too well, and he'll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line, even if it means exposing dark secrets.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1003152990

UPC:

760137035787

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)