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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, spotlights and claustrophobic lighting schemes.
Critics reviews. Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it’s costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown’s girlfriend, Susan Lowell.
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal! A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't...
- 87 min
- 43.8K
- Cult Cinema Classics
The Big Combo (1955) The walls and floors are streaked in shadows and there's a noisy boxing match roaring in the city. Behind the scenes, a girl is pursued down darkly expressionist corridors, with only the self-gratified roar of the crowd as backdrop. As The Big Combo starts we’re right in there at the heart of the caper, although the real ...
The Big Combo also holds the distinction as the only classic American noir to feature what most consider an indisputably gay relationship in the assassin duo of Fante (Lee Van Cleef) and Mingo (Earl Holliman): they sleep next to each other and refer to a future together, and it’s Mingo’s love for Fante that precipitates Brown’s final downfall.
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- 88 min
- 59.4K
- The Smoking Hat
The Big Combo feels like a cold-eyed sequel to The Glass Key, the brutal return of reality to the fantasy with which the earlier film ends. Here, we re-encounter Paul Madvig (the name is different, but the man is the same), a decade-plus removed from his heyday in The Glass Key .
