Cornel Wilde
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond
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The Big Combo: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. With Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace. A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph H. Lewis
- 1955-02-13
The Big Combo is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace, who was Wilde's wife at the time.
Watch The Big Combo with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home. Film noir about a police lieutenant who comes under pressure from a gang headed by...
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- Cornel Wilde
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Crime, Drama
A police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man's girlfriend. Cast & Crew. Read More. Joseph Lewis. Director. Cornel Wilde. Lt. Leonard Diamond. Richard Conte. Mr. Brown. Brian Donlevy. Joe McClure. Jean Wallace. Susan Lowell. Robert Middleton. Capt. Jeff Peterson. Photos & Videos. View All. 2 Photos. Film Details. Also Known As.
- Joseph Lewis, Robert Justman, Mack Wright
- Cornel Wilde
Synopsis. Police captain Peterson (Robert Middleton) storms into the office of police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde), critical of Diamond's spending exorbitant amounts of the city budget and his own personal money in an attempt to arrest a crime boss, Mr. Brown (Richard Conte).
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Cornel Wilde plays his desperate ninety-six-fifty-a-week cop very well. He lives in a cheap flat across from a burlesque house, one of whose headliners (Helene Stanton) he occasionally sees. But in a film of surprising homosexual undertones, his only passion is for nailing the suave and savage crime boss.
Overview. Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend. Joseph H. Lewis. Director. Philip Yordan. Writer. Written by on November 14, 2022.
