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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...
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).
Dec 31, 2014 · Whoever uploaded this version of "The Big Combo" must be thanked. This wonderful noir has never looked better and John Alton's cinematography shines. Great script, fine direction and excellent performances (Conte is fantastic, Wild and Wallace were never better.)
A police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man's girlfriend.
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.
