Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
Logic might insist that there are three kinds of plays—good, bad, indifferent—but Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is none of these. ...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
["The Big Knife"] is an exposure of the movie capital which must take its place beside the exposures of the advertising business written by bright yo...
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Critical Essay by John Gassner
It is no small tribute to Clifford Odets that his return to Broadway after eight years of Hollywood peonage should have roused singular expectations. Although these were...
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