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  1. The Big Knife. The Big Knife is an American play by Clifford Odets. The original production was directed by Lee Strasberg, who had worked with Odets at the Group Theatre, and starring fellow Group Theatre alumnus John Garfield. The play debuted at Broadway's National Theatre on 24 February 1949 before closing on May 28 after 109 performances.

  2. Oct 8, 2021 · The big knife. "Tells of the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality. We see his struggles to escape from the net of insincerity and falsehood in which he has trapped himself, and his ...

  3. The Big Knife. The Big Knife is a 1955 American melodrama film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase, and Everett Sloane. [5]

  4. Apr 16, 2013 · Original Review: ‘The Big Knife’. Scroll down to read Brooks Atkinson’s original 1949 review of Clifford Odets’s play on Broadway. Brooks Atkinson’s original 1949 review of Clifford Odets’s play on Broadway.

  5. Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill , as O'Neill began to withdraw from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash. [2]

  6. The Big Knife is an American play by Clifford Odets. The original production was directed by Lee Strasberg, who had worked with Odets at the Group Theatre, and starring fellow Group Theatre alumnus John Garfield. The play debuted at Broadway's National Theatre on 24 February 1949 before closing on May 28 after 109 performances. The Big Knife marked the return of Odets to Broadway after a six ...

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  8. Jan 2, 2004 · Clifford OdetsÕ 1948 drama The Big Knife, in which Odets provided a penetrating insight into the socially cor-rupting effects of the onset of ÒT rumanismÓ in America. Serving as producer and playing the lead role of OdetsÕ character Charlie Castle, Beltran brought to the drama a highly refined sense of both the historically specific con-