Police Lt. Leonard Diamond
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Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down the sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He is also dangerously obsessed with Brown's girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell. His main objective as a detective is to uncover what happened to a woman called "Alicia" from the crime boss's past.
The Big Combo: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. With Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace. A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him.
Film noir about a police lieutenant who comes under pressure from a gang headed by a vicious thug. He is helped by the gangster's wife, jealous at her husband's...
The Big Combo (1955) is a classic public domain film noir crime film with hard hittin cop Cornel Wilde on the trail of cool gangster Richard Conte.
A police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man's girlfriend.
Police captain Peterson (Robert Middleton) storms into the office of police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde), critical of Diamond's spending exorbitant amounts of the city budget and his own personal money in an attempt to arrest a crime boss, Mr. Brown (Richard Conte).
A subversive noir featuring obsession, corruption, homoeroticism, and insanity, Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo is like a minefield of desperate acts by desperate characters.
