In a Lonely Place
1950
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Jun 6, 2004 · Glenn Ford plays a straight-arrow police detective named Bannion in Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat" (1953) -- unbending, courageous, fearless. He takes on the criminals who control the politics in his town and defeats them.
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After talking to the man's mob-connected mistress, Bannion discovers far-reaching corruption that leads all the way from the police station to kingpin Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby). But...
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- Glenn Ford
- Fritz Lang
- Crime, Drama
The Big Heat is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city.
Glenn Ford is a police sergeant seeking retribution for the death of his wife in "The Big Heat," a 1953 film that also stars Gloria Graham and Lee Marvin. While investigating a police officer's alleged suicide, Ford's idyllic family life is ruptured when his lovely young wife is killed in a car bombing intended for him.
Review. Effective film noir about a cop fighting the mob as well as his own corrupt superiors as he investigates a murder. Ford has perhaps the best role of his career as the good cop. His scenes with wife Brando are very nicely handled, adding poignancy to the tragedy that would befall the family.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Fritz Lang
- 1953-11-16
The Big Heat is one of the highest peaks of noir cinema and Fritz Lang's best American film. The movie is the emblematic expression of that climate of corruption that had hit the police and judicial apparatus in the early 1950s.
Whilst it is less stylised than the great noir films of the 1940s, The Big Heat is undisputedly one of the best examples of classic American film noir. What is particularly memorable about the film is its intense visceral impact - a dark streak of pessimism and cruelty which borders on sadism.
