Cornel Wilde
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond
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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.
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.
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...
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A police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man's girlfriend.
The Big Combo (1955) is a classic public domain film noir crime film with hard hittin cop Cornel Wilde on the trail of cool gangster Richard Conte.
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).
A subversive noir featuring obsession, corruption, homoeroticism, and insanity, Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo is like a minefield of desperate acts by desperate characters. With an inky visual palette by cinematographer John Alton, whose final shot in the airport hangar is widely hailed as the singular visualization of the noir style, the ...
