Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is about disillusion and compromise, but it's not a pity party. Fueled by Odets' loathing for Hollywood, this hard-boiled 1949 play packs a wallop. At least it does on the page, and on the screen " the 1955 film adaptation starring Jack Palance, Rod Steiger...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:29AM on April 17, 2013