The Big Heat

Name: The Big Heat
Director: Fritz Lang
Released: 1953
Duration: 89 min
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Alexander Scourby

1953

Dir. Fritz Lang

1h 29m

USA

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Principal Cast

Glenn Ford

Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion

Crew

Director

Fritz Lang

Director

Fritz Lang

1890 – 1976

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Di…

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