Overview:
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.| Status: | Released (1953-10-14) |
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| Awards: | 2 wins & 2 nominations total |
| Screen: | Sydney Boehm, William P. McGivern |
| Productions: | Columbia Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 3381: Glenn Ford - Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
- 77081: Gloria Grahame - Debby Marsh
- 18391: Lee Marvin - Vince Stone
- 7520: Jeanette Nolan - Bertha Duncan
- 96284: Alexander Scourby - Mike Lagana
- 96283: Jocelyn Brando - Katie Bannion
- 89527: Peter Whitney - Tierney
Crews
- 30103: Robert Arthur - Producer - Production
- 68: Fritz Lang - Director - Directing
- 82862: Sydney Boehm - Screenplay - Writing
- 96285: Henry Vars - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 3148: Charles Lang - Director of Photography - Camera
- 12145: Jean Louis - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 31063: William P. McGivern - Original Story - Writing
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Reviews
John Chard
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Fritz Lang deals nicely in obsession and corruption. Detective Dave Bannion is investigating the suicide of corrupt cop Tom Duncan. As he gets deeper, and his colleagues get nervous, his wife is inadvertently killed by a car bomb that was meant for him, he turns from mannered fam ....
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_The Big Heat_ is a blistering slice of film noir; its shocking violence—especially the infamous coffee-throwing scene—still jolts in its cruelty, surpassing most of its contemporaries. Fritz Lang crafts a relentlessly dark narrative of corruption and vengeance, with Gloria Grahame a ....
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