Fresh
It is done with grim melodramatics that are hard-hitting despite a rambling, not-too-credible plot, and is cut out to order for the meller fan who likes his action rough and raw.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Big Combo
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
1955 · 1h 28m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Joseph H. Lewis
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.
Director and cast
- Joseph H. Lewis Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Where the usual noir takes place in a nightmare world, this one seems to inhabit a dream: there's no longer fear in the images, but rather a distanced, idealized beauty.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A sputtering, misguided antique.
Howard Thompson, New York Times
Fresh
Terrific gangster movie.
Tom Milne, Time Out
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