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Original title: Big Heat, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 18, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Big Heat (1953)
• Heißes Eisen (1954)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir, Drama, Gangsters, Thieves, Suspense, Detectives, Revenge, Police, Marriage, Blackmail, Cult Classic, Murder, Femme Fatale
Tagline: From The Shock Packed Saturday Evening Post Seria l!
Plot: THE BIG HEAT, Fritz Lang's most celebrated American film, is a chilling and violent tale of corruption, vengeance, and loss. Dave Bannion, played by distinguished Film Noir actor Glenn Ford, 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 (Gloria Grahame). 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. The violence comes suddenly and unrelentingly, as Lang explodes the stripped down story with economic yet forceful cinematography and editing, and gritty yet emotionally gripping performances from Ford and Grahame.
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| Written by |
Sydney Boehm
When Worlds Collide, Second Chance, The Tall Men | |
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| Cast |
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 | Lee Marvin
The Dirty Dozen, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Caine Mutiny |
 | | | | Jeanette Nolan
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Horse Whisperer, The Fox and the Hound | Peter Whitney
In the Heat of the Night, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Mr. Skeffington | |
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| Music By |
Daniele Amfitheatrof
Song of the South, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | | Henry Vars
The Unearthly, Flipper, House of the Damned |
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