The Big Knife (1955) starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino
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@Songwriter3765 жыл бұрын
No way is todays movies even remotely as good as this is. Acting like one never sees today. Stupendous.
@lindamattioli7943 Жыл бұрын
So true and very sad
@SimonFurber Жыл бұрын
Absooooolutely. ❤
@cynthialyman26369 жыл бұрын
Marvelous film adapted from Clifford Odets stage play, and such a brilliant cast! I wish we still had gems like this to choose from, but thankfully this is available on KZbin. Much appreciation.
@Blonde_Somnambulist5 жыл бұрын
well! I am staggered at the quality of these performances, simply brilliant.
@mariarooney62625 жыл бұрын
Whoa! WOW. What acting. One of the best, if not the best I’ve ever seen. All that was commented on is true. I find most of the 40’s and 50’s movie acting is unbelievable. Every actor in this movie was superb. Great casting and everything else. Thanks!
@legend99483 жыл бұрын
If only John Garfield would have lived
@c.a.savage56892 жыл бұрын
Wow. Just wow. I had forgotten how powerful a carefully crafted, brilliantly acted piece of dramatic film making could be. Palance, Lupino, Steiger and the entire supporting cast (especially Wendell Corey with those pale blue, dead eyes of his). It's like a Greek tragedy set in Hollywood. I hope this won some awards or at least critical recognition. A masterpiece.
@lizaroberts91673 жыл бұрын
This movie is a forgotten gem!!! TCM ... This should definitely been a part of Film Noir!! Acting and script is superb!!!
@johnjaco5544 Жыл бұрын
It is.
@newfratcity8 жыл бұрын
Boxing, then smoking, dreaming of rare roast beef, high-waisted pleated pants... Ahhh the good ole' days.
@ricardocantoral76727 жыл бұрын
And the liquor. How the hell did we make it past the 50's ? 😂
@RAMROD47083 жыл бұрын
@@ricardocantoral7672 Hey, most of the time, the liquor was the best part. (Along with the girls!)
@haroldpayne25273 жыл бұрын
@@ricardocantoral7672 because of the liquor!
@carlabroderick55082 жыл бұрын
The pants have never been bested. Bring them back.
@zsagi77710 жыл бұрын
I'm a fan Ida Lupino. Glad I found your channel. Thanks!
@cynthialyman26369 жыл бұрын
The more I watch this production, the more I think Ida was underrated. She really is uniquely beautiful with those riveting ice blue eyes and her fantastic figure. I always considered her one of the more serious actresses of her era--possibly it had something to do with the depth of her voice--but the costuming in this film really showcases her physical beauty. Hollywood hasn't put anything like this out in decades.
@legend99489 жыл бұрын
+Cynthia Lyman The play was written by Clifford Odets with John Garfield in mind (Garfield starred in the original play in the late 1940's). Both Odets and Garfield were part of the original Group Theatre back in the 1930's and were good friends. Odets also wrote Golden Boy hoping that Garfield would star in it when the Group produced it but that never came to be. That was one of the reasons why Garfield left The Group for Hollywood. The story in The Big Knife in some ways parallels John Garfield's Hollywood career. Both he and Charlie Castle were casualties of the Hollywood persona.
@cynthialyman26369 жыл бұрын
+legend9948 Thank you for the info.
@SC-uq2jf6 жыл бұрын
Ida Lupino was an award winning director with her own production company. Her " figure" you refer seems ignorant and unnecessary, especially considering how women are still judged by appearances 60+ years after this film.
@alanoldham17005 жыл бұрын
Good to see that your insufferable, politically-correct finger-wagging and thought policing isn't confined to Star Trek Discovery videos.
@carlabroderick55082 жыл бұрын
@@SC-uq2jf As a woman I must say Ida Lupino was hardly someone whose figure would be much objectified. Those who think it was must be responding more to her character and carriage.
@aileenwag27285 жыл бұрын
Very well written AND acted. Luv this movie!! Ida, Rod, Jack, Shelley!!! Doesn't get much better than this. Thank u!!!
@richardnogan45793 жыл бұрын
Wow!!! Powerful movie! Excellent, Excellent acting! Ida, Jack and Rod should of gotten an oscar. The part where Jack and Rod were going at it back and forth was like poetry in motion. But every cast was great. Tku for post.
@Old-Time-Fun7 жыл бұрын
Nothing could make Jack Palance look better than he does in this film, next to Ida - While she has a big smile on her face ! I'm sure that would make me look good too ! TNX 4 Posting !
@cinnamonconrad911210 жыл бұрын
Jack Palance was great in this
@tpe548 жыл бұрын
It almost reminds me of a Shakespearean play. With the dialogue and characters. the variety of background music is a trip also......... "the red neon lights are on and the sky is full of drunken blackbirds" 42:34 What a crazy line!.....
@edoedo86866 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@perkyporkpie9 жыл бұрын
Just brilliant. Aldrich often makes the women stronger than the men and it just makes the drama extremely tight. Oddly Ida Lupino-who I thought was wonderful and drop dead gorgeous- had a sister who talked to MY sister a lot about Hollywood. Mega wonderful
@bettybutton800510 жыл бұрын
THE BIG KNIFE (1955) JACK PALANCE and IDA LUPINO High drama - low morals - deep unhappiness and tortured souls - this is an exhausting watch - but watch you must - the scene where he hears the recording of his wife is such a tender moment I'm still crying now
@bettybutton800510 жыл бұрын
Great cast ~ Jack Palance ~ Ida Lupino ~ Rod Steiger ~ Shelley Winters ~ Wendell Corey
@HeatherGlen3310 жыл бұрын
BETTY BUTTON What begins as a rather shallow, and materialistic, story, leaves a heart breaking, ending. I think Palance took this film.
@twinkle30262 жыл бұрын
OMG! Poor Charlie appears to be so frightened of Stanley Hoffman, that he dare not even interrupt him, whilst he is speaking, for one second, to enable himself to retrieve his cigarette lighter, in his own home! .... Thank you for posting this great film! Top class actors/actresses, starring! Love Ida Lupino @ Shelly Winters! xxxxx
@roberthill799 Жыл бұрын
Steiger is one of the most underappreciated actors in Hollywood history. His performance in The Pawnbroker is one of the most tragic ever filmed. And in No Way To Treat A Lady one of the most insane!
@DOOMJESUS6 ай бұрын
ARE YOU KIDDING?
@rexozone6 жыл бұрын
Never would I have imagined Jack Palance bringing tears to my eyes. But he did. And Ida...
@romeosyneАй бұрын
You people may think i'm crazy , but this is one of my favorite movies of all time... I've literally seen this probably forty times
@christianbrother47244 жыл бұрын
Must have flagstone on my living room wall.
@muse77468 жыл бұрын
Riveting. Great movie.
@kathypell6 жыл бұрын
and Shelly Winters this movie has wonderful actors
@eduardoramirezjr44035 жыл бұрын
It’s interesting how Rod Steiger’s character man handles Jack Palance (and smacks the rump) as if he was a side of beef or a prize bull.
@stevesedberry4 жыл бұрын
Of all Lupino's films this one I most remember.
@techlady42769 жыл бұрын
This was one of the most RIVETING films, I've seen. The performances were STELLAR. Always the best from Ida Lupino, but never witnessed Jack Palance as such a tender and vulnerable character. Makes you wonder if he could have been a sensitive soul in real life. Hollywood has had years of practice in buying and selling souls. I know these studio characters in the film and music business are just as FILTHY, GREEDY and EVIL as depicted in the movie. Thanks for sharing.
@CLASSICALFAN1008 жыл бұрын
+TechLady See JP in the Playhouse 90 production of "Requiem for a Heavyweight", as a washed-up prizefighter. Written by Rod Serling. RIGHT HERE ON KZbin!!!
@gailjarvis25927 жыл бұрын
By all accounts he was a rotten dog. Richard Widmark said he was the only actor he ever hated. Hated. He said that he and Palance had a fight scene in a movie and that Palance literally "tried to break my back." Widmark said he had lifetime pain from Palance's intentional brutality.
@jazzysophie99435 жыл бұрын
Money does change a person. Money is the root of all evil. Look at our president.
@jimcrawford31852 жыл бұрын
@@jazzysophie9943 The LOVE of money is the root, jazzy
@tomdooley4226 Жыл бұрын
@@jazzysophie9943 Yes, just look at him and his DOJ and FBI.
@thefollowing81275 жыл бұрын
Wonderful dialogue.
@78rpmblues7 жыл бұрын
This is one film that must be seen by students of acting. Jack Palance as Charlie Castle turns in one of his best performances. The film was riveting from start to finish, with a great cast. Rod Steiger as the studio boss is menacing with his white hair. Ida Lupino was married to Howard Duff at the time this movie was made. I can't help but feel she drew some emotions from her marriage to Duff for this film, an excellent performance as well. If you need action in your movies this is not the film for you, but if you enjoy an intelligent script and good acting see The Big Knife.
@JGLeber Жыл бұрын
Hollywood IS the Big Knife.
@henrybrowne72482 жыл бұрын
Ahh, I love Shelly Winters.
@Syncopator4 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's quite a story. Thanks for posting this.
@ZOGGYDOGGY6 жыл бұрын
Time travelling back to the 50s. Notice how much has changed and how much has remained the same?
@jparker59able3 жыл бұрын
Great oldie. Great acting.
@Olhamo7 жыл бұрын
Devastating. brilliant acting. and Ida Lupino, looking like the definition of burned out. that ending!!
@mperry13299 жыл бұрын
You can count on this movie being loud with Shelley Winters and Rod Steiger in the cast.
@namyarasree3 жыл бұрын
Pls, add Jack Pallance and Ida Lupino. Thank you..!
@michelleregis61814 жыл бұрын
Ida Lupino , had that special quality and presence all her own,, she was an excellent actress, great personality in every movie i have seen her in.... Shelley Winters acting was very good,and her style was interesting.....
@eddy88282 жыл бұрын
Loved this movie. Great acting. Thank you for the upload.
@pyconsable5 жыл бұрын
What a treat great movie
@romanchomenko29124 жыл бұрын
Jack Palance was a professional boxer in 1940s before he joined the US Airforce as a trainee pilot suffered injuries in crash in 1942,discharged through those injuries and later became an actor.
@dabdella14605 жыл бұрын
Oscar worthy What a movie and all star cast Won't forget this story any time soon
@1mrstutt6 жыл бұрын
In the very beginning when the narrator is talking about Bel Air while pics of houses are being shown, you'll see the Kirkeby mansion, later to be used for exterior shots for "The Beverly Hillbilllies". Remember driving by there many years ago, before the road was changed or closed off.
@louisev85909 жыл бұрын
The local church just did this play. It was fun to see the movie now.
@lizaroberts91673 жыл бұрын
Thank you fansofidalupino for sharing this gem!!
@lizaroberts91673 жыл бұрын
Such an amazing movie!!!
@arjo7lzlzl759 жыл бұрын
I STRIVE TO BE LIKE JACK PALANCE EVERYDAY!
@arjo7lzlzl758 жыл бұрын
***** HEY!! That's not a nice thing to say about Jack! And I happen to look like Jack. Square jaw, broad shoulders, smooth, vodka vocal cords, and size 14 feet! Women sway and swoon when they see me walkin'!!
@curtisjones4007 жыл бұрын
Jack was a truly a "tough guy"
@ricardocantoral76727 жыл бұрын
ARJO 7LzLzL7, you have a kick-ass taste in film !
@cotswoldcuckoo7757 жыл бұрын
ARJO 7LzLzL7 Killed anyone today, Curly ? " Day ain't over yet !"
@4Topwood3 жыл бұрын
Then why are you yelling like Rod Steiger?
@miltsar9 жыл бұрын
interesting to watch Steiger morph in and out of Brando.....
@4Topwood3 жыл бұрын
@burtonrules123 Ham and cheese.
@c.a.savage56892 жыл бұрын
Similar acting styles. Although I would say Steiger came first and Brando channeled Steiger's style. Could be wrong, though.
@MyNameIsChristBringsASword4 ай бұрын
This is the Godfather and Pulp Fiction back in the 50s and more truthful than anything written since.
@paddywinklink73935 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Thank you.
@2dogarageoxo Жыл бұрын
I was never exactly a Palance fan but I am now, wonderful film!
@alanconway37359 жыл бұрын
Loved Shelley Winters small but meaty part in the film, the only movie in her career where she was billed Miss Shelley Winters.
@cat2000ish3 жыл бұрын
what a great movie .Ida lupino was such a talented woman.
@MrJimirox Жыл бұрын
thank you
@cynthialyman26368 жыл бұрын
In Rod Serling's brilliant "Requiem for a Heavyweight," produced for Playhouse 90, Jack Palance plays a washed-up prize-fighter undermined and ultimately sold out by his manager. The final beating this pro fighter takes is poignant and tragic, but in Serling's deft hands, Palance's performance rings with pathos and ethos, without ever falling into the mundane or trite. The Big Knife is similar, but after a vew more viewings seems far more stagey, more theatrical, appropriate since Odets wrote it as a play. However, the cast is stellar and the story sadly fascinating; we can see the inevitable accident strewn out up ahead in the road, yet we don't turn away.
@deanrane19616 жыл бұрын
Amazing! what a cast.
@newfratcity8 жыл бұрын
God why can't they make men's clothes like that anymore.
@theeffectedcollective42617 жыл бұрын
newfratcity they only make them for Rich ppl now
@stuartlawsonbeattie14115 жыл бұрын
@@theeffectedcollective4261 ha ha and the rich/celebrity doesn't know how to wear them or carry such class. These stars, real stars have it all, class, pure class, when the Silver Screen was just that, paved with paths and dreams of gold. May we learn to savour their spirit and remember what they gave us, dreams, pure dreams. Always, cheers.
@jazzysophie99435 жыл бұрын
Some styles come back. Or maybe a little change that was very similar to the old style. The old styles had so much class. I always loved a guy who dressed well. I never seen my dad in jeans. He didn't even own a pair of jeans. He never wore shorts. Never could figure that one out.
@namyarasree5 жыл бұрын
@ja maguire Jeans are all right and may be very sexy. But I hate shorts. It's really ugly.
@tonylilley66116 жыл бұрын
Great movie
@romeosyne4 жыл бұрын
"Charlie, half-idealism is the peritonitis of the soul."
@JEM133 Жыл бұрын
Nobody does that like Jack Palance,that intensity of voice.
@johnzeszut3170 Жыл бұрын
The movie has been televised a few times recently - it is a must see - strong performances by one and all!
@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 Жыл бұрын
40:14 And that's why you should always keep your door locked.... I'm here for Ida Lupino. Wishing John Garfield was in this movie.
@timothyrogers58103 жыл бұрын
There's something off-kilter about this film....but what an extraordinary cast!
@c.a.savage56892 жыл бұрын
I think that's because it's written as a play. There's next to no "action" in the film sense of the word. People sitting around talking. Like flies in a spider's web.
@HeatherGlen3310 жыл бұрын
Yes, Ida never gives a bad performance. In "The Hard Way" She is at her best.
@WHEREISTHEREASON8 жыл бұрын
+heatherglen33 Her best I think is " High Sierra".
@keithharvey72305 жыл бұрын
Jean Hagen was Lena Lamont in Singing in the Rain.
@oldfan19634 жыл бұрын
a brilliant cast
@kinhason466 жыл бұрын
Excellent movie, Ida Lupino was an amazing woman, Jack Palance just in a class with Lee Marvin, VanCleef, sorta Anthony Quinn type guy!
@edithpiwowarski4704 Жыл бұрын
I really can’t say that Jack Palance was at his best in this movie. He’s always been a favorite in a western movie, and that’s where he belonged….
@virnamisra1657 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful to watch the open halves of the two egg shells so to speak creato joined at the lower rim how much. !!! she !!! manages to grip grab and convince albeit momentarily for an undecided !!!! him !!!!
@lynnestarr5076 жыл бұрын
The actor is a painting of. A Clown with a changing face hiding its emotions and revealing itself to the right admirer .. with different faces, keeping whatever it can safe within somewhere in the painting. Where no one will ever know the truth. Until he is no more! This is my analyses of “The Big Knife “ with the all star cast. Staring Jack Palance in his best role,the one that made him famous.
@leisagibson86307 жыл бұрын
Wow!! Excellent an unexpected...
@bethmiletti95407 жыл бұрын
My son, aged 50 met Palance near Pittston, Pa. He said Palance was a soft spoken gentleman. Nothing like the roles he plays.
@JGLeber Жыл бұрын
,ALL STAR Cast.
@jdr17472 жыл бұрын
a solid movie, well written script and great acting.
@StevenTorrey5 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the guy who holds the contract doing his best channeling of Marlon Brando!
@jerryassetto5649 Жыл бұрын
Exceptional acting from ALL of the characters. A very underrated movie. Shelly Winters was great in her usual character role, however, surprisingly good was Jean Hagen from The Danny Thomas Sitcom with a complete role reversal. I also noticed Paul Langdon playing "Buddy" was a regular on ABC's TV series Peyton Place.
@keliahkiki81085 жыл бұрын
I love these black and white movies...
@dokskwyr4353 Жыл бұрын
Great movie. A real roller-coaster ride of a flick with no dead or boring spots. Keep up the great work. Liked it so much I just subscribed to your channel.
@gabrielcabreramedrano19862 жыл бұрын
Actores de carácter , muy buenos. Gracias.
@JustVinnyBlues9 жыл бұрын
Great performances all around, but a semi-auto biographical script by Clifford Odets who, having learned his craft working with the Group Theater, always wrote great parts for actors. Another gem to see is "Country Girl", which won Grace Kelly an Oscar. All these characters are based on real life people Odets knew when he worked in Hollywood. And the Hoff character is based on a real studio executive who was famous for crying during contract talks. What's amazing is people don't realize that Hollywood is still basically the same; albeit there is no "studio contract" system anymore. Made in 1955, after the demise of the studio system; otherwise would never have been made into a film.
@VinDcator9 жыл бұрын
How often do you see five or more great actors in the same frame?
@tinyvalentine1311 жыл бұрын
thank you!!
@andyyelbid3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading,very engaging film version of this 'on the money' stage play by Clifford Odets.Great performances , obviously very wordy in the style of an all about Eve type movie, but like that movie carried off in style.Ida and Rod Steiger steal the show for me.
@kathyh48042 жыл бұрын
All the CGI, technology etc STILL cannot make excellent films like this! They just don’t make actors like this anymore! The gifted directors of the past are gone. Excellent scripts writers, gone
@CLASSICALFAN10011 жыл бұрын
This is not so much a "movie" as a filmed stage-play. (The same may be said of 1959's musical comedy "L'il Abner", also on youtube.) The creaky, 'stagey' dialogue gives it away. (One half-expects the curtain to come down between scenes.) If you really want to see Jack Palance at his very best, see early TV's "Requiem for a Heavyweight".
@nedludd76222 жыл бұрын
You see that this is a play. The dialog is denser than the usual film. It reminds me of films made from Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee, though theirs are a step above this. As for films about Hollywood, my favorite is "Barton Fink" by the Coens.
@NA8673710 жыл бұрын
Did Steiger ever not chew the scenery
@rem22679 жыл бұрын
GregB1986 No.
@ricardocantoral76727 жыл бұрын
He was the Ham of Hams.
@c.a.savage56892 жыл бұрын
An acquired taste. I believe his portrayal of Napoleon was pretty subdued by comparison. Also On the Waterfront. I'm sure there are others.
@anrun Жыл бұрын
Considering his character, an over-the-top phony/fraud who will cry to manipulate people, his performance seemed spot-on.
@leolacasse6278 Жыл бұрын
like most movies, it takes only five minutes before some S.O.B. starts pouring a drink
@Cogenstein6 жыл бұрын
Some say it's over acted, but some times you want wrestlemania. Reality is way too boring.
@tonyrothman2 жыл бұрын
Clifford Odets is too over-the-top for my tastes, sort of a northern Tennessee Williams, but you've got to hand it to the cast--not a bad performance on screen. The real surprise was Jack Palance. Who could have imagined?
@c.a.savage56892 жыл бұрын
Agree entirely. He was too often cast as a villain.
@JGLeber Жыл бұрын
Jack Palace another great actor
@JGLeber Жыл бұрын
Poor guy was tormented. Really sad ending Bring a movie star didn't help him at all.Hurt him.
@jolynnwhite79466 жыл бұрын
This film came thru when Hollywood was in flux television was proving to be . The power of noir a stellar ensemble cast , Oscar worthy . Can y read the film I can.
@pninnabokov37342 жыл бұрын
Dixie sounded (or tried to) like Marilyn Monroe. After all, Winters and Monroe were roommates early on in their careers. The "doing away" with Dixie because her loose lips brought to mind Marilyn's so-called suicide. I love the dialogue in classic films; modern English superbly articulated.
@jennfaire87266 жыл бұрын
The entire movie acted out in the living room, what a terrible melodramatic nightmare.
@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 Жыл бұрын
Good point, perhaps an orientation from a stage play where there is one central set on the stage. "Seven year Itch" does something similar; almost everything happens in the small apt. Another stage play originally. Theatre people love the theater. Maybe that's not the worse thing.
@virnamisra1657 Жыл бұрын
Claw Paw and Flaw but bottles apart
@onthegrind72 жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@carolswarbrick1722 Жыл бұрын
Terrific script, really had you guessing 🇬🇧
@makaveli719656 жыл бұрын
His god damn jawline could cut glass... this guy was swimming in coooze
@GregoryGLake6 ай бұрын
I've said this before but isn't this the best of its genre? Shelley Winters always unfortunately play the same party! They talked about her a lot more than we saw her thank God !!
@GregoryGLake6 ай бұрын
Robert Aldrich _ BabyJane
@namyarasree5 жыл бұрын
A terrible portrait of show business. A very good movie and wonderful actors.
@micktulk6 жыл бұрын
Why Jack no Oscar??? Beats me.
@ImYourHuckleberry_293 жыл бұрын
Damn Ida Lupino is smoking here
@ssppeellll7 жыл бұрын
37:13 -- "Charles, we all love you." I hear an echo of Donald Trump in the way he says this.