The Big Heat
Crime
Thriller
A hard cop and a soft dame.
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.
1953-10-14
en
Cast
Director
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh
Jocelyn Brando as Katie Bannion
Alexander Scourby as Mike Lagana
Lee Marvin as Vince Stone
Jeanette Nolan as Bertha Duncan
Peter Whitney as Tierney
Willis Bouchey as Lt. Ted Wilks
Robert Burton as Det. Gus Burke
Adam Williams as Larry Gordon
Howard Wendell as Police Commissioner Higgins
Chris Alcaide as George Rose
Michael Granger as Hugo
Dorothy Green as Lucy Chapman
Carolyn Jones as Doris
Edith Evanson as Selma Parker
Phil Arnold as Nick (uncredited)
Linda Bennett as Joyce Bannion (uncredited)
Charles Cane as Hopkins (uncredited)
Phil Chambers as Hettrick (uncredited)
Sidney Clute as Retreat Bartender (uncredited)
John Crawford as Al - Bannion's Brother-in-Law (uncredited)
John Doucette as Mark Reiner (uncredited)
Douglas Evans as Councilman Gillen (uncredited)
Fritz Ford as Sailor (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers as Retreat Patron (uncredited)
Byron Kane as Dr. Jones (uncredited)
Donald Kerr as Cabby (uncredited)
Lyle Latell as Moving Man (uncredited)
Harry Lauter as Hank O'Connell (uncredited)
Celia Lovsky as Lagana's Mother in Portrait (uncredited)
Herbert Lytton as Martin (uncredited)
Mike Mahoney as Dixon (uncredited)
Paul Maxey as George Fuller (uncredited)
Joseph Mell as Dr. Kane (uncredited)
John Merton as Man (uncredited)
William Murphy as Reds (uncredited)
Michael Ross as Segal (uncredited)
Ted Stanhope as Lagana's Butler (uncredited)