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Run Time: 1h 51m.

IMDb: 6.8 / 10.

Genre: film-noir movies | drama movies | crime movies

Release year: 1955.

Story: Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.

Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career, his marriage, his art & morality. In this screen adaptation of a Clifford Odets play, Castle is pressured by his studio boss and manipulated into a potentially murderous cover-up to protect his career. An indictment of the amoral world of 50s Hollywood and its corrosive effect upon the artist.

Hollywood movie star Charlie Castle, under contract at Hoff-Federated Studios, is being pressured by studio chief, Stanley Hoff, and Hoffs right-hand man, Smiley Coy, to sign a seven year renewal deal, something that Charlie is reluctant to do. Life at Hoff-Federated has already taken its toll on his marriage, his wife Marion having moved out of their Bel Air mansion with their son Billy, as there is as much focus if not more on the extracurricular activities as there is on the movie making, Charlie having previously cheated on Marion, including with his faithful agent Buddy Bliss sexually aggressive wife, Connie Bliss. In addition, both Charlie and Marion have been unhappy that the movies at the studio have and are not with the substance that either envisioned. To save the marriage as Marion has threatened leaving him for good if he signs, their mutual friend, writer Hank Teagle, who has already proposed to her, Charlie is willing to walk away from Hollywood altogether rather than sign with another studio to give Hoff the satisfaction that no one else in the business would benefit. The issue in the background is that Hoff and Smiley are well aware of the truth of Charlie being behind a vehicular death for which Buddy took the fall, Buddy having served ten months in prison for it, this information always present whether of not it is spoken or if Hoff would use it to pressure Charlie into signing. Beyond Hoff and Smiley, one other person is aware of what really happened, she starlet Dixie Evans, also under contract at Hoff-Federated. Dixie, who Hoff uses more as window dressing at studio parties than in any substantive movie roles, may inadvertently divulge this information in her anger and unhappiness with life at Hoff-Federated.

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Jack Palance
Charlie Castle

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