Drama with Jack Palance as a big movie star in big trouble. He killed a child in a hit-run accident and someone or someones are threatening to spill the beans.
We have a top-rated cast here. Rod Steiger steals the show as a movie studio mogul out to destroy Palance if he doesn't sign that 7 year deal.
Looks wise, Palance has never appeared better. Kudos to the make-up artist who actually made the guy look good looking here. As his wife, Ida Lupino is not dominant in the film. There lacks that vicious quality which made her a star in so many other films. Nonetheless, she turns in an adequate performance as the conflicted wife.
Jean Hagen and Shelley Winters portray two bimbos who are really flying high. Wendell Corey and Ilka Chase, the latter as a Hedda Hopper type round out the cast.
Palance is quite conflicted here. He is almost a Shakespeare-like tragedy. We know that he is contemplating suicide because we see that near famous James Mason like walk in "A Star is Born," the year before. Geraldine Page would repeat that phenomenon in 1978's "Interiors."
Ironically, Palance starred with Winters in "I Died A Thousand Times" in 1955. The latter was a remake of the Ida Lupino vehicle "High Sierra" with Humphrey Bogart. What a grand reunion here for all!
We have a top-rated cast here. Rod Steiger steals the show as a movie studio mogul out to destroy Palance if he doesn't sign that 7 year deal.
Looks wise, Palance has never appeared better. Kudos to the make-up artist who actually made the guy look good looking here. As his wife, Ida Lupino is not dominant in the film. There lacks that vicious quality which made her a star in so many other films. Nonetheless, she turns in an adequate performance as the conflicted wife.
Jean Hagen and Shelley Winters portray two bimbos who are really flying high. Wendell Corey and Ilka Chase, the latter as a Hedda Hopper type round out the cast.
Palance is quite conflicted here. He is almost a Shakespeare-like tragedy. We know that he is contemplating suicide because we see that near famous James Mason like walk in "A Star is Born," the year before. Geraldine Page would repeat that phenomenon in 1978's "Interiors."
Ironically, Palance starred with Winters in "I Died A Thousand Times" in 1955. The latter was a remake of the Ida Lupino vehicle "High Sierra" with Humphrey Bogart. What a grand reunion here for all!