Big Knife, The - (Movie Clip) God Bless

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.

Big Knife, The -- (Movie Clip) 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 -- (Movie Clip) 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 -- (Movie Clip) 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.