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The Big Combo
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
1955 · Directed by Joseph H. Lewis · 88 min · Drama · Crime · 16 frames
Tagline
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
Crew
- Written by: Philip Yordan
- Cinematography: John Alton
- Edited by: Robert S. Eisen
- Production design: Rudi Feld
- Produced by: Sidney Harmon
Cast
- Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond
- Jean Wallace as Susan Lowell
- Brian Donlevy as Joe McClure
- Richard Conte as Mr. Brown
- Lee Van Cleef as Fante
- Earl Holliman as Mingo
- Robert Middleton as Police Capt. Peterson
- Helen Walker as Alicia Brown
- Jay Adler as Detective Sam Hill
- John Hoyt as Nils Dreyer
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Security Pictures, Theodora Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
- Themes: film noir, police corruption, police detective, double cross, lie detection, antiques shop, hangar, burlesque dancer, police shootout, gang moll
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