Film


The Big Heat

Dir: Fritz Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
89mins   1953   US   15   English   

Part of Fritz Lang in America

Includes talk on Fritz Lang’s Life and Movies, by Depot's Chair of Trustees Robert Senior

A police officer seems to have committed suicide, but Detective Dave Bannion thinks there's more to the story.

After talking to the man's mob-connected mistress, Bannion discovers far-reaching corruption that leads all the way from the police station to kingpin Mike Lagana.

But when the policeman's lover is killed, it becomes clear that crossing Lagana is a dangerous thing to do. Soon Bannion finds himself marked for death and his family in mortal danger.

'...directed with a dramatic incisiveness, a sharp-edged observation that keeps the pitch of interest and excitement continuously high' - Lindsay Anderson, Sight & Sound

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