The Big Heat

About The Big Heat

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Fritz Lang's The Big Heat is a 1953 crime thriller film. Glenn Ford stars as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion, Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh, Jocelyn Brando as Katie Bannion, and Alexander Scourby as Mike Lagana.

It runs 89 minutes and was released in October 1953. Written by Sydney Boehm.

Shelv files it under film noir, cop, homicide, and car bomb. It streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and YouTube TV in the United States. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 583 TMDB voters.

War for the Planet of the Apes, Unfriended, and Irreversible make useful companions to The Big Heat, all filed under death, revenge, and suicide.