Movie
The Big Combo
Overview
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Details
- Release date
- 1955-02-13
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Security Pictures, Theodora Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond
- Jean Wallace as Susan Lowell
- Brian Donlevy as Joe McClure
- Richard Conte as Mr. Brown
- Lee Van Cleef as Fante
- Earl Holliman as Mingo
- Robert Middleton as Police Capt. Peterson
- Helen Walker as Alicia Brown
- Jay Adler as Detective Sam Hill
- John Hoyt as Nils Dreyer
- Ted de Corsia as Ralph Bettini
- Helene Stanton as Rita
Crew
- Joseph H. Lewis - Director
- Philip Yordan - Writer
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