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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 [3] about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. William P. McGivern 's serial in The Saturday Evening Post, published as a novel in 1953, was the basis for the screenplay, written by former ...

  2. Jun 6, 2004 · 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. One of his motives is revenge for the murder of his wife, but. even before that happens he has an implacable hatred for the gang headed by. Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his ...

  3. English. Box office. 509,439 admissions (France) [1] Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Jane Merrow. [2] It was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington, and was released in the UK by Planet Film Productions.

  4. 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.

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    • Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
    • Fritz Lang
    • 1953-11-16
  5. Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Joshua Polanski Midwest Film Journal The Big Heat is a pessimistic, mordacious, even feral film in the late style of the great director ...

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    • Glenn Ford
    • Fritz Lang
    • Crime, Drama
  6. The earlier film combines the figure of Mabuse-style mastermind and redeemed bad girl in Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich), with whom Vern falls in love, while The Big Heat sets up decorativebut-sharp moll Debby (Gloria Grahame) as an outsider within the gang of smooth crime czar Lagana (Alexander Scourby), with a degree of license to criticize her dangerous boyfriend Vince Stone (Lee Marvin ...

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  8. N o film noir depicts the ruination of 1950’s domestic tranquility more explicitly than Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat; in fact, homicide detective Dave Bannion’s (Glenn Ford) happy home life quite literally explodes, leaving him a bitter, empty shell of a man on “a hate binge.”. Lang immerses us in Bannion’s secure and loving household ...

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