The Big Knife (1955)

Richard Boone: Narrator

Quotes 

• [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.