The Big Heat
A hard cop and a soft dame.
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10/14/1953Runtime
89 minsOverview
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.
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A lean, brutal noir where a cop's pursuit of a crime syndicate spirals into visceral vengeance, driven by betrayal and fueled by rage. The film strips away sentimentality to show how obsession with justice can corrode the man seeking it.
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Glenn Ford
Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria Grahame
Debby Marsh
Lee Marvin
Vince Stone
Jeanette Nolan
Bertha Duncan
Alexander Scourby
Mike Lagana
Jocelyn Brando
Katie Bannion
Peter Whitney
Tierney
Willis Bouchey
Lt. Ted Wilks
Robert Burton
Det. Gus Burke
Adam Williams
Larry Gordon
Carolyn Jones
Doris
Howard Wendell
Police Commissioner Higgins
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