Clifford Odets, the celebrated right wing playwright inspired John Turturro's character in Barton Fink but But Odet's own Hollywood fable was magnificently told before Barton Fink in the excoriating The Big Knife from 1955 starring Jack Palance, the movie that first handled all that Hollywood bull starring none other than Jack Palance... and it did it all before The Cohen Brothers.
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