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The Big Heat

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The Big Heat

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Film noir starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin. When tough detective Dave Bannion is assigned to investigate a colleague's suicide, he is sceptical about the reasons given for his death. Forced to work under cover, he discovers the existence of a suicide note that implicates a brutal Mob boss.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

Glenn Ford crusades against Mob-led civic corruption and hunts for vengeance in this classic film noir from director Fritz Lang. Its most famous scene, when moll Gloria Grahame is scalded by hot coffee hurled by crook Lee Marvin, was trimmed by the censors before the movie could be released in Britain with an X certificate. Now fully restored, it's tame by today's standards, but still packs a punch. Ford is excellent as the cop with a mission - his character was based on the investigators who uncovered the bile in US cities during the televised 1950s Estes Kefauver Senate inquiry - and Lang gives the vicious exposé a sleek and glossy surface.

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7.9/10

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rolenameDave BannionGlenn FordDebby MarshGloria GrahameKatie BannionJocelyn BrandoMike LaganaAlexander ScourbyVince StoneLee MarvinBertha DuncanJeanette NolanTierneyPeter WhitneyLt WilkesWillis BoucheyGus BurkeRobert BurtonLarry GordonAdam Williams

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rolenameDirectorFritz Lang

Details

Theatrical distributor

Columbia Picture Corp. Ltd

Released on

2017-11-24

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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