The Big Knife (1955)
Richard Boone: Narrator
Quotes
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[first lines]
Narrator : [voice over during a visual montage of expensive homes] This is Bel Air, a lush, luxurious retreat of the wealthy and powerful. If you work in the motion picture industry and are successful, this well-tended suburb of Hollywood is where you will probably make your home. Failure is not permitted here.
Narrator : [as the overhead shot zooms into a back yard where two men are boxing, one of the men being Charlie] Our story has to do with a twentieth century phenomenon. Name: Charlie Castle. Profession: movie star. Problem: survival. Charlie Castle is a man who sold out his dream, but he can't forget them.