Movie
The Big Heat
Drama film with a runtime of 89 minutes, released in 1953. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Release DateOctober 14, 1953
TypeMovie
LanguageEnglish
Genredrama, suspense/thriller, crime drama
Synopsis
One of the great film noirs, this unrelentingly brutal crime drama centers on a street-toughened detective's quest for vengeance after his wife is accidentally killed by the gangsters who have been assigned to murder him. Working outside the law's confines, the detective's obsessive search for the culprits leads him into the labyrinthine bowels of mob-corrupted city politics. Much of the plot is based on the U.S. Senate investigations of 1950 that exposed the influence of organized crime upon American politics.
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Cast
- Glenn Ford
- Gloria Grahame
- Jocelyn Brando
- Alexander Scourby
- Lee Marvin
- Jeanette Nolan
- Peter Whitney
- Willis Bouchey
- Willis B. Bouchey
- Robert Burton
- Adam Williams
- Howard Wendell
- Chris Alcaide
- Michael Granger
- Dorothy Green
- Carolyn Jones
- Ric Roman
- Dan Seymour
- Edith Evanson
- Joseph Mell
- Sidney Clute
- Norma Randall
- Linda Bennett
- Herbert Lytton
- Ezelle Poule
- Byron Kane
- Lyle Latell
- Ted Stanhope
- Michael Ross
- William Murphy
- Phil Arnold
- Douglas Evans
- Mike Mahoney
- Patrick Miller
- Paul Maxey
- Charles Cane
- Kathryn Eames
- John Merton
- Al Eben
- William Vedder
- Harry Lauter
- Phil Chambers
- Robert Forrest
- John Crawford
- John Doucette
- John Close
- William Kiernan
- Sydney Boehm
- Charles Nelson
- Charles Lang
- Robert Peterson
- George Cooper
- Jean Louis
- Mischa Bakaleinikoff
