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...Gazzara does a striking virtuoso job as Johnny, and Anthony Franciosa a rewarding one as his brother. But the top performance is Cinemactress Shelley Winters as the wife: she seems like some one honestly groping in a human drama rather than skillfully functioning in an uneven stage piece...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters (TIME...
Down and down he goes after that, saucing up all day and bedding down at night with his friends' wives, until one day the studio hatchet man (Wendell Corey) drops in "to throw the raw meat on the floor." The girl (Shelley Winters), who was with the star on the night of his accident, has been drinking fast and talking loose. "She's dishonest," somebody remarks. "She won't stay bought." The hatchet man concludes: "She'll have to be removed." Murder, however, is too rich for the star's blood. He lets the producer...
...striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone for life's long winter...
With Charles Laughton, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish...