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The Big Combo is a 1955 American crime film noir drama written by Philip Yordan and directed by Joseph H. Lewis. The film features a cast including Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, and Jean Wallace. It was produced by Security Pictures, Theodora Productions, and Allied Artists Pictures, and distributed by Monogram Pictures and Netflix. The movie is presented in black-and-white and has a runtime of 88 minutes.
The narrative focuses on organized crime and includes themes of police corruption, police detective work, double cross, and lie detection. The score was composed by David Raksin, with John Alton serving as director of photography. The film is available in the United States of America and has been released on video on demand through providers such as YouTube TV, Philo, Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, and Cultpix.
Critical reception includes a review score of 93% and an IMDb rating of 7.3 based on 9,203 votes. The film holds a TMDb vote average of 7.04 and an OMDb rating of Approved. Its original language is English.
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7.0Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Cast
- Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond
- Jean Wallace as Susan Lowell
- Brian Donlevy as Joe McClure
- Richard Conte as Mr. Brown
- Lee Van Cleef as Fante
- Earl Holliman as Mingo
Themes
- film noir
- police corruption
- police detective
- double cross
- lie detection
- antiques shop
- hangar
- burlesque dancer
- police shootout
- gang moll
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
9,203 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
- Year
- 1955
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- organized crime
- Director
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Screenwriter
- Philip Yordan
- Cast member
- Jay Adler
- Composer
- David Raksin
- Cinematographer
- John Alton
- Duration
- 87
- FilmAffinity ID
- 186545
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The Big Combo - publicity still.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Big Combo (film)
- publication date
- 1955-01-01
- title
- The Big Combo
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 93%
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