The Big Heat (1953)

ON THE BIG SCREEN In partnership with Bracknell Film Society, a series of classic film made for and seen originally on the big screen.

The Big Heat
Cert 15
Dir Fritz Lang, US, 1953, 86 mins
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin

Tough, maverick cop Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate when he investigates the suicide of a colleague, finding a code of silence among his fellow officers. One of the most notable in the classic film noir canon, this humdinger of a crime thriller puts the hard into hard-boiled.

Distinguished by tautness and speed; modesty of intention; intelligent, craftsman-like writing; and is directed with a dramatic incisiveness SIGHT AND SOUND, 1953