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The Big Heat
(1953)
A hard cop and a soft dame!
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Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Sydney Boehm, William P. McGivern
Language: English
Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Duration: 89
Rated: NR
DVD Release: December 2001

Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.


Glenn FordDet. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria GrahameDebby Marsh
Jocelyn BrandoKatie Bannion
Alexander ScourbyMike Lagana
Lee MarvinVince Stone
Jeanette NolanBertha Duncan
Peter WhitneyTierney
Willis BoucheyLt. Ted Wilks
Robert BurtonDet. Gus Burke
Adam WilliamsLarry Gordon
Howard WendellPolice Commissioner Higgins
Chris AlcaideGeorge Rose
Michael GrangerHugo (police clerk)
Dorothy GreenLucy Chapman
Carolyn JonesDoris
Ric RomanBaldy
Dan SeymourMr. Atkins
Edith EvansonSelma Parker
Henry VarsComposer
Charles LangCinematographer
Charles NelsonEditor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Media: DVD
Sound: Mono
IMDb: 0045555