The Big Heat
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Movie Reviews of The Big Heat
Movie Review: Glenn does the dishes, then takes out the TRASH!
Summary: 5 Stars
This noir would be great except for the workmanlike Glenn Ford. In this rather curious noir, the policeman Ford is portrayed as a loving family man who rushes home to read bedtime stories to his daughter, and to happily perform domestic chores with his kind, intelligent wife. Their relationship is almost too good and progressive...you know if has to end. I mean, it was almost emasculating our hero! Mr. Ford is touching and believable in the domestic scenes. However, in the fine tradition of "this-dog-is-gonna-die" the wife get's hit and Mr Ford goes on a revenge-induced tear. This second act is where Mr Ford's weakness shows. He doesn't convincingly convey the kind of rage one would expect. However, he does get the job done and by his dogged determination to do the right thing actually convinces his weak-kneed boss to join him on his righteous crusade.
Lee Marvin is actually sexy as the slack-jawed psychopath, and Gloria Grahame is great, as always, as the loose cannon high spirited floozy who gets used by everyone. The coffee-throwing scene is a classic. Recommended!
Movie Review: If you like detective mysteries ,you'll love "The Big Heat"
Summary: 5 Stars
Columbia Pictures under the Direction of Fritz Lang produced a great Good Cop with a Hero Image Against the Rotten Corrupt World of a 1953 City. Thats Hollywood stile film making.Glenn Ford portrays the only honest hardnose City Police Detective who sacrifices everything to maintain his morale integrity.
He investigates what seems to be a routine policemans suicide but uncovers a complex corruption ring which includes, gangsters, politicians and his own police precinct. Quickly finds himself on the outside with everyone trying to squash his investigation, life threatened he begins to battle the odds alone.
This 1953 Black & White Standard Format (Full Screen) is beautifully digitally transferred. The picture & sound quality is awesome. A great story, an outstanding cast with Glenn Ford as the hero Detective, Lee Marvin as a Gangster Stooge and a delightful Gloria Grahame as his girlfriend.
This is a must see movie for Sam Spade & Phillip Marlowe admirers.
Special features include only an original theatrical trailer.
Enjoy.
Movie Review: Coffee, hold the cream
Summary: 5 Stars
A crackerjack film noir crime drama, brimming with violence, hatred, and sadism. Glenn Ford is Det. Dave Bannion, a hard-nosed honest cop who knows his city is being run by a gang of hoods,and he can't do anything about it (the police commissioner is bought and paid for). When Bannion investigates a murder that comes too close to the hoods' operation, they wire his car--only his wife is the one who's blown up. He quits the force and, full of hate and revenge, goes after the killers himself. Lee Marvin plays a sadistic nightmare who likes to beat up women; in a famous scene he throws hot coffee in girlfriend Gloria Grahame's face. After that Grahame decides to help Ford and together they get the job done. One of the best movies of its kind ever made. The script is taut and riveting, and the acting is superb. Fritz Lang directed.Movie Review: One of the most striking film noir ever made!
Summary: 5 Stars
Since an ex cop (Glenn Ford)decides to crack the underworld hold in a city with the help of a mobster's moll , many things will happen when the risk is accepted . Lee Marvin is magnificent and unforgettable as a sadistic killer .
This is a top and excellent policial blessed for the great talent of Fritz Lang who still in that age literally shone with that magnetic and vital expressive force . As you know Lang was always interested in the dark side of the soul of the human being and if you look back in his previous noir filmography , the themes are deeply challenging and disturbed . This is a mature film all the way and one of my favorite and timeless cult movies of the fifties .
Movie Review: The Big Heat
Summary: 5 Stars
This brutal, in-your-face noir thriller about organized crime and political graft by German ex-pat Lang is about as hardboiled as they come. For starters, the dialogue is sharp and blunt, like a smack in the jaw, and Ford's portrayal of the obsessed Bannion is downright fearsome. "Heat" is particularly memorable for two performances: Lee Marvin, as psychotic henchman Vince Stone, and the peerless Gloria Grahame, as a sultry moll whose face Marvin cruelly disfigures--with a cup of coffee! Crisply paced and unrelentingly fierce, "The Big Heat" is one steamy ride.