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. [3] 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph H. Lewis
- 1955-02-13
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).
The last in a cycle of low-budget film noirs directed by Joseph H. Lewis before he turned his attention to Westerns and television work, The Big Combo (1955) is a rather unique entry for its genre due to its frank sexuality, extreme sadism and John Alton's stunning black and white cinematography that places the story in a world of shadows ...
- Joseph Lewis, Robert Justman, Mack Wright
- Cornel Wilde
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.
Dec 18, 2020 · The Big Combo, from director Joseph H. Lewis, released in the waning years of film noir’s popularity, is an example of the latter. Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) of the Los Angeles Police Department has been on the hunt for the elusive Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) for over a year already.
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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.
