The Big Heat
- Sat, Dec 20
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Director: Fritz Lang Run Time: 89 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1953
Starring: Alexander Scourby, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jeanette Nolan, Lee Marvin
Screenwriter: Sydney Boehm from the novel by William P. McGivern
Producer: Robert Arthur
The way you ask it, it sounds like a bunch of dirty words. A film noir scorcher from Fritz Lang with Glenn Ford as the only uncorrupt cop in a city police force rotten with the influence of a powerful gangster. After an officer commits suicide, Sergeant Dave Bannion (Ford), sets out to take on the heavies that run his department and city. After a series of brutal retaliatory killings, Bannion finds himself in over his head, but ready to take on the whole corrupt system and the dangerous man that calls all the shots. Gloria Grahame steals the show as a gangster’s moll, with more quotable lines of dialogue in her 20 minutes of screen time than a dozen sitcoms. Searing, compelling, and remarkably entertaining, it’s no wonder this is considered one of the best film noirs ever.
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Accessibility Options: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.