The Big Heat (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Director: Fritz Lang Fritz Lang

Overview

One of the great film noirs, this unrelentingly brutal crime drama centers on a street-toughened detective's quest for vengeance after his wife is accidentally killed by the gangsters who have been assigned to murder him. Working outside the law's confines, the detective's obsessive search for the culprits leads him into the labyrinthine bowels of mob-corrupted city politics. Much of the plot is based on the U.S. Senate investigations of 1950 that exposed the influence of organized crime upon American politics.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2025
UPC:	0715515315715
Original Release:	1953
Source:	Criterion Collection
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Glenn Ford	Dave Bannion,un marin,Actor
Gloria Grahame	Debby Marsh
Jocelyn Brando	Katie Bannion
Alexander Scourby	Mike Lagana
Lee Marvin	Vince Stone
Jeanette Nolan	Bertha Duncan
Peter Whitney	Tierney
Willis Bouchey	Actor,Lt. Wilkes
Robert Burton	Actor
Adam Williams	Larry Gordon
Howard Wendell	Commissioner Higgins
Chris Alcaide	George Rose
Michael Granger	Hugo
Dorothy Green	Lucy Chapman
Carolyn Jones	Doris
Ric Roman	Baldy
Dan Seymour	Atkins
Edith Evanson	Selma Parker
Joseph Mell	Dr. Kane
Sidney Clute	Bartender
Norma Randall	Actor
Linda Bennett	Joyce
Herbert Lytton	Martin
Ezelle Poule	Mrs. Tucker
Byron Kane	Dr. Jones
Ted Stanhope	Butler
Michael Ross	Segal
William Murphy	Actor
Phil Arnold	Nick
Mike Mahoney	Dixon
Patrick Miller	Intern
Paul Maxey	Fuller
Charles Cane	Hopkins
Kathryn Eames	Actor
Al Eben	Harry Shoenstein
Harry Lauter	Hank O'Connell
Phil Chambers	Hettrick
Robert Forrest	Bill Rutherford
John Crawford	Al
John Doucette	Mark Reiner
John Close	un policier
Douglas Evans	Gillen
Lyle Latell	Moving Man
John Merton	Man
William Vedder	Janitor
Daniele Amfitheatrof	Composer
Henry Vars	Composer

Technical Credits

Sydney Boehm

Fritz Lang	Director
Sydney Boehm	Screenwriter
George Cooper	Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Arthur	Producer