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The Big Heat: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby. Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
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Synopsis. Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is an honest cop who investigates the death of fellow officer Tom Duncan. It would seem to be an open-and-shut case, suicide brought on, according to his wife, by concern over health issues. Mrs.
The Big Heat: Directed by Yeung-Wah Kam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui. With Waise Lee, Joey Wang, Matthew Wong, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok. Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder.
Fritz Lang can conjure up a paranoid thriller with the greatest of ease (actually, it's probably a lot of work, but it looks easy, which is a feat unto itself), and The Big Heat provides some of his classic paranoia to the proceedings of a story of a good, hard cop on the trail of a case that's gone way too corrupt.
The Big Hit: Directed by Kirk Wong. With Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks. Socially anxious hitman Melvin Smiley, an expert in his lucrative field, goes on a job and falls in love with his kidnapping victim, turning his world upside down.
Night of the Big Heat: Directed by Terence Fisher. With Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow. While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties.
THE BIG HEAT is an impressive crime thriller, shot in the streets and urban spaces of Hong Kong and filled with chases, shootouts and fistfights right up until the final action climax.
The Big Heat: Directed by Ben Hernandez Bray. With Rob Lowe, Gina Torres, Ronen Rubinstein, Sierra Aylina McClain. A recovering Owen becomes the prime suspect in the serial arsonist case. Meanwhile, T.K. and Carlos find themselves in a fiery situation and Tommy gets the surprise of her life.
Based on the "Saturday Evening Post" serial (December 1952 to February 1953) and breakout novel "The Big Heat" (New York, 1953) by former Philadelphia crime reporter William P. McGivern.
