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...
A police lieutenant becomes obsessed with bringing down a crime boss and his girlfriend, who is his lover. He faces danger and betrayal from the mob and his own department in this film noir thriller.
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 in this film noir directed by Joseph Lewis. The Big Combo features Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace and Brian Donlevy in the cast.
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.
