The Master Touch is a pulse-pounding action film featuring violent fight scenes, eye-popping car chases and a powerful physical performance from Kirk Douglas. After beginning his movie career in the film noir classics The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) and Out of the Past (1947), Douglas was soon starring in the big studio productions The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Lust for Life (1956). Two of his greatest roles came in Stanley Kubrick's early masterpieces, Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960).