The Big Knife by Clifford Odets

A hardened Hollywood star grapples with the corrosive compromises that built his success as a powerful studio executive and the scandal of his past threaten to destroy him; pressured, manipulated and haunted by guilt, he confronts the moral bankruptcy of the film industry and the personal cost of having traded integrity for fame, leading to a desperate, tragic choice that exposes the bleak reality behind the glamour.