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Philip Yordan (writer)
Release Date:
13 February 1955 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
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Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing...
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THE BIG COMBO (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) ***
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Cornel Wilde | ... | Police Lt. Leonard Diamond |
 | Richard Conte | ... | Mr. Brown |
 | Brian Donlevy | ... | Joe McClure |
 | Jean Wallace | ... | Susan Lowell |
| Robert Middleton | ... | Police Capt. Peterson |
| Lee Van Cleef | ... | Fante |
| Earl Holliman | ... | Mingo |
| Helen Walker | ... | Alicia Brown |
| Jay Adler | ... | Detective Sam Hill |
| John Hoyt | ... | Nils Dreyer |
| Ted de Corsia | ... | Ralph Bettini |
| Helene Stanton | ... | Rita |
| Roy Gordon | ... | Audubon |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Doctor (scenes deleted) (as Whit Bissel) |
| Steve Mitchell | ... | Bennie Smith, Boxer |
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USA:84 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA)
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This film skirted the Production Code by making several not to subtle hints that Mr. Brown's henchmen, Fante and Mingo (played by Lee Van Cleef and 'Earl Holiman'), were a homosexual couple.
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Continuity: When John Hoyt as Dreyer reaches into his desk for a gun, the contents of the desk on the insert close-up do not match the contents on the master shot.
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Leonard Diamond:
Do you know Mr. Brown?
Nils Dreyer: I had lunch with him last week. He's a very fine gentleman.
Leonard Diamond: He's a hoodlum.
Nils Dreyer: Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime. I'll have lunch with anybody, I'm democratic. I'll even have lunch with you.
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Nils Dreyer: I had lunch with him last week. He's a very fine gentleman.
Leonard Diamond: He's a hoodlum.
Nils Dreyer: Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime. I'll have lunch with anybody, I'm democratic. I'll even have lunch with you.
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Featured in The Rules of Film Noir (2009) (TV)
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Despite a bland title, this is a top-notch film noir, one of Lewis' best in fact, with a first-rate cast (Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Ted De Corsia, Robert Middleton, Jay Adler, John Hoyt, etc.), a typically hard-boiled script courtesy of Philip Yordan and some memorably violent scenes for its time (police officer Wilde's torture at the hands of gangster Conte, Donlevy's "silent" demise by Conte's henchmen Van Cleef and Holliman, Conte punching his moll, Jean Wallace, in the face, etc.); cinematographer John Alton and composer David Raksin lend their expert support. I had first seen this one some 15 years ago when I caught it one afternoon, quite by accident, on Italian TV and was very impressed by it; I'm glad that my re-acquaintance with it via Alpha's DVD proved to be equally satisfying.