Directed by:
Fritz LangScreenplay:
Sydney BoehmCinematography:
Charles LangComposer:
Henry VarsCast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell (more)Plots(1)
Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth. (Powerhouse Films)
(more)Cast
Sidney Clute
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
...And Justice for All (1979)
The Big Heat (1953)
Ted Stanhope
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Three Little Words (1950)
Chris Alcaide
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Illegal (1955)
Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
Joseph Mell
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Phil Arnold
USA
Best movies:
One Man Mutiny (1955)
The Big Heat (1953)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Celia Lovsky
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Edith Evanson
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rope (1948)
Paul Maxey
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
Robert Burton
USA
Best movies:
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Linda Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
John Close
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Michael Ross
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Phil Chambers
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Oh! For a Man! (1957)
The Bounty Hunter (1954)
William Vedder
USA
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Gunfighter (1950)
John Merton
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Gilda (1946)
Lyle Latell
USA
Best movies:
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Big Heat (1953)
Douglas Evans
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Big Heat (1953)
From the Terrace (1960)
Mike Mahoney
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Byron Kane
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Michael Granger
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Murder by Contract (1958)