The Big Combo (The Hoodlum)

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Directed by

Joseph H. Lewis

Starring (View all)

Cornel Wilde
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond

Richard Conte
Mr. Brown

Brian Donlevy
Joe McClure

Jean Wallace
Susan Lowell

Robert Middleton
Police Capt. Peterson

Lee Van Cleef
Fante

Earl Holliman
Mingo

Helen Walker
Alicia Brown

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The stunning chiaroscuro of cinematographer John Alton suffuses this fascinatingly stylized film noir from B-movie master Joseph H. Lewis. Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is on a personal crusade to bring down sadistic gangster Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). He is also dangerously obsessed with Brown’s girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace). When Diamond is officially taken off the case, he nevertheless continues to investigate Brown, a dangerous pursuit that has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with private vendettas borne of submerged desires.

Release date: 13 February 1955
UPC: 014381614626

Tags: Film Noir (9), Crime (6), Thriller (5), Corruption (4), 1955 (4), Drama (4), Investigation (3), Gangster (3), 1950s (3), Femme Fatale (3), Murder (2), Suicide Attempt (2), American (2), Black And White (2), Police Detective (2), Mistress (2), Detective (1), Usa (1), HQ (1), Big City (1)

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"Shadows and lies are the stars of The Big Combo, a spellbinding black-and-white chiaroscuro with the segmented textures of a spider’s web. Caught in the center of this sticky, elastic clutter of light and shadow is Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), the girlfriend of a mobster with information about a mysterious woman named Alicia who may be of interest to police lieutenant Leonard Diamond (Wallace’s real-life hubby Cornel Wilde). John Alton’s lush camerawork is so commanding here that you would"