The Big Combo
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
1955 | 88m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Joseph H. Lewis |
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| Writer: | Philip Yordan |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 13, 1955 |
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| Director: | Joseph H. Lewis |
| Writer: | Philip Yordan |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | film noir, police corruption, police detective, double cross, lie detection, antiques shop, hangar, burlesque dancer, police shootout, gang moll |
| Production Companies | Security Pictures, Theodora Productions, Allied Artists Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Cornel Wilde | Leonard Diamond |
| Jean Wallace | Susan Lowell |
| Brian Donlevy | Joe McClure |
| Richard Conte | Mr. Brown |
| Lee Van Cleef | Fante |
| Earl Holliman | Mingo |
| Robert Middleton | Police Capt. Peterson |
| Helen Walker | Alicia Brown |
| Jay Adler | Detective Sam Hill |
| John Hoyt | Nils Dreyer |
| Ted de Corsia | Ralph Bettini |
| Helene Stanton | Rita |
| Roy Gordon | Audubon |
| Baynes Barron | Young detective |
| James McCallion | Frank - Lab technician |
| Tony Michaels | Photo technician |
| Rita Gould | Nurse |
| Bruce Sharpe | Detective |
| Michael Mark | Fred (hotel clerk) |
| Donna Drew | Miss Hartleby |
| Brian O'Hara | Attorney Malloy |
| Steve Mitchell | Bennie Smith, Boxer |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Joseph H. Lewis | Director |
| Philip Yordan | Writer |
| John Alton | Director of Photography |
| Larry Butterworth | Makeup Artist |
| Robert S. Eisen | Editor |
| David Raksin | Music |
| Earl Snyder | Sound Designer |
| Carla Hadley | Hairstylist |
| Rudi Feld | Production Design |
| Don Loper | Costume Design |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Walter Mirisch | Executive Producer |
| Sidney Harmon | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17 | 27 | 8 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 14 | 27 | 6 |
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| 2024 | 10 | 24 | 69 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 31 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 23 | 7 |
| 2025 | 1 | 10 | 20 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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Cornel Wilde is quite good as the detective charged with investigating a local crime boss (Richard Conte) who thus far has proved a bit Teflon. After a few years of this relentless pursuit, he has managed to fall for the hoodlum's lady (Susan Wallace) and his captain deduces that he has become too c ... lose to remain objective and so the case is to be stopped. That all changes when Conte's thugs accidentally kill the woman (instead of him) and it all becomes truly personal! It's a well directed, pacy and, at times, suspenseful crime drama from the pen of Philip Yordan that could perhaps have been just ten minutes shorter to tighten it up.