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The Big Heat

The Big Heat

7.7/ 10

TMDB Rating

544

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1953

Release Year

89 min

Runtime

Crime
Thriller

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.

Keywords

suicide
police
gangster
homicide
car bomb
cop
revenge
film noir
death
wrecking yard
patrol car
crime syndicate
mob

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Reviews(2)

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John Chard

John Chard

December 21, 2019

9
9/10

Fritz Lang deals nicely in obsession and corruption. Detective Dave Bannion is investigating the suicide of corrupt cop Tom Duncan. As he gets deeper, and his colleagues get nervous, his wife is inadvertently killed by a car bomb that was meant for him, he turns from mannered family man into a v

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griggs79

griggs79

December 2, 2024

9
9/10

_The Big Heat_ is a blistering slice of film noir; its shocking violence—especially the infamous coffee-throwing scene—still jolts in its cruelty, surpassing most of its contemporaries. Fritz Lang crafts a relentlessly dark narrative of corruption and vengeance, with Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin de

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