It is pure coincidence that I saw this film so soon after Two Weeks In Another Town. Both are over-the-top melodramatic, super-cynical looks at Hollywood film making. The Big Knife is much grimmer, and clearly a notch better. Aldrige is a better fit for this type of film than Minnelli. The cast is quite good. Palance and Lupino are both in top form. Steiger is his usual blustery self, but solid. Shelley Winters has that pathos thing down pat. But Wendell Corey almost steals the show as Steiger's emotionless, completely conscious-lacking, hired man.
Good stuff, but I didn't like the ending. Still, 7 rating.
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