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It sits within the topics 1950s crime thriller films, 1953 American films and 1953 English-language films.
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7.7After 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.
Cast
- Glenn Ford as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
- Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh
- Jocelyn Brando as Katie Bannion
- Alexander Scourby as Mike Lagana
- Lee Marvin as Vince Stone
- Jeanette Nolan as Bertha Duncan
Themes
- suicide
- police
- gangster
- homicide
- car bomb
- cop
- revenge
- film noir
- death
- wrecking yard
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
31,169 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
- Year
- 1953
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Fritz Lang
- Screenplay by
- Sydney Boehm
- Based on
- the Saturday Evening Post serial and 1953 novel, by William P. McGivern
- Produced by
- Robert Arthur
- Starring
- Glenn Ford , Gloria Grahame , Jocelyn Brando
- Cinematography
- Charles Lang
- Edited by
- Charles Nelson
- Music by
- Henry Vars
- Color process
- Black and white
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release date
- October 14, 1953 ( 1953-10-14 ) (New York City)
- Running time
- 90 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Box office
- $1.25 million (US)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- mystery film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Suicide
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Screenwriter
- Fritz Lang
- Cast member
- Howard Wendell
- Composer
- Mischa Bakaleinikoff
- Producer
- Robert Arthur
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Charles Lang
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 89
- FilmAffinity ID
- 718330
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Dorothy Green-Glenn Ford in The Big Heat.jpg
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- publication date
- 1954-02-05
- film editor
- Charles Nelson
- title
- The Big Heat
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 94%
- Commons category
- The Big Heat
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Encyclopedic overview
The Big Heat is a 1953 American film noir 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.
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 crime reporter Sydney Boehm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Big Heat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.