The Big Heat
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“You're about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs.”
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Overview
Fritz Lang's classic (and very nasty) noir The Big Heat is a tale of vice and dice. When upright cop Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is assigned to investigate the suicide of another officer, he finds the man's widow suspiciously withholding and his mistress suspiciously dead. Under pressure from his superiors to close the case quickly, Bannion discovers a web of corruption controlled by a ruthless gang leader and is drawn into a conflict with a rapidly rising body count.
Why You Should See This Film
Perhaps most famous for his expressionist masterpieces Metropolis and M (made before he fled wartime Germany), Lang's fascination with the forms evil takes and his sense of irony make him a natural for a murky morality tale like The Big Heat. Glenn Ford is excellent as the allegedly "good cop" at the narrative centre, but Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame bring something truly special to their roles as a brutal gangster and his tough-talking moll— the passion between them that boils over into shocking violence is one of the most memorable scenes in noir.
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