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Bookmark this pageThe Big Combo (1955)
Director: Joseph H Lewis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Terrific gangster movie, although - despite the syndicate shenanigans promised by the title - it's more of a film noir focusing on the private, obsessional duel between Wilde's cop and Conte's gangster, each variously haunted by a woman and virtually becoming the other's alter ego during the course of their deadly vendetta. A film structured by viciousness and pain (amplified by two peculiarly hideous torture scenes involving a hearing aid), it's a dark night of several souls perfectly visualised in John Alton's extraordinary camerawork. Even better than Lewis' earlier - and remarkable - Gun Crazy.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Joseph H Lewis
Producer: Sidney Harmon
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Robert Middleton full cast
Duration: 89 mins
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