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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.
The Big Heat: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby. Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Jun 28, 2020 · The Big Heat is a 1953 American Film Noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin and Jocelyn Brando (the elder sister of Marlon Brando).The film was written by former crime reporter Sydney Boehm, based on a serial by William P. McGivern that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and was published as a novel ...
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.
A police officer seems to have committed suicide, but Detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) thinks there's more to the story. After talking to the man's mob-connected mistress, Bannion discovers far...
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The Big Heat, American crime film, released in 1953, that was called the “definitive film noir” by critic Pauline Kael. It is also regarded as one of the highlights of director Fritz Lang’s career. Homicide detective Dave Bannion (played by Glenn Ford) is investigating the suicide of a fellow.
Overview. After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1997. Fritz Lang.
