Just perfect...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

. . . Today's viewers are bound to conclude after checking out things in a typical totally corrupt American city during THE BIG HEAT. Sure, this city's Police Commissioner is in cahoots with every whim and command coming to him from the murderous thieving crime lord character "Mike Lagana," but at least "Commissioner Higgins" is NOT a U.S. President taking orders from the murderous thieving Russian Red Commie KGB Chief. Sure, THE BIG HEAT's crusading do-gooder police sergeant character "Dave Bannion" gets peeved when one of his Police Commissioner's fellow mob henchmen blows up Mrs. Bannion with a car bomb, but at least he's not fighting a master crook who looted $1 TRILLION from the Russian Treasury, and then began to rub out his critics throughout the world with War Crime nerve agents, secure in the knowledge that Fortress America had been defanged and neutered, reduced to the mute fearful silence of the "See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Say no Evil" simian figurines. Therefore, if YOU want to spend 90 minutes with something more positive than Real Life as we know it Today, check out THE BIG HEAT.

THE BIG HEAT is extremely brutal thriller, full of violence and inverted noir clichés. This is a film about organized crime in the big city. Corruption, bribery and crime against the integrity and professionalism of an ordinary man - a police officer. One against all the unrealistic ratio, but this is exactly the segment in the film which brings the most excitement and tension. A lonely and rejected protagonist, driven by personal motives do not care about the laws and rules in the fight against organized crime. The main character is a police detective who investigates the death of a colleague suspected of corruption and to him, during the investigation, wife killed in a blast bomb. The story shows how his superiors then deducted the case, but he nevertheless, driven by the desire for revenge, is continuing its investigation that will lead to a fatal girlfriend of one of the gangsters and the final settlement.In this film has a lot of bad guys, so that an honest and professional police officer, who tried to live a more peaceful family life, sure to attract attention. Violence and brutality fit into the noir atmosphere. The concept of the femme fatale is little changed. Everything is packaged very well, so that some gaps in the script practically no sense.Characterization is quite good. Glenn Ford as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion is angry, cold and vindictive detective. With good reason of course, though he is the hero of this film. Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh is atypical femme fatale, who eventually played the most important role. Lee Marvin as Vince Stone He is the harsh and violent criminal who still lives in the shadow of his big boss. Alexander Scourby as Mike Lagana is the big boss who did not leave a distinct impression of villain. Jeanette Nolan as Bertha Duncan is perhaps the biggest villain in this film. The widow full of malice and envy. Jocelyn Brando as Katie Bannion It is positive and smiling housewife. She is the reason.It's roasting. This is one of those thrillers that we see in one breath.

Fritz Lang's The Big Heat is among the best noir movies ever made, and unlike any noir movie that I have ever seen before in my entire life. As the movie opens we see a corrupt cop commit suicide and then within a few seconds his wife comes downstairs to see what had happened and she finds her husband on his desk with a pistol in his hand and calls the police. Thee movie stars Glenn Ford as Police Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion the man who is in charge of this investigation of the apparent suicide, then within a few days Bannion is ordered to stop asking the wife of the dead cop questions about her husband. While trying so hard to crack this case right open he continues persistently until an explosion in his car happens for him ended up killing his wife (played by Jocelyn Brando, who was the sister of Marlon Brando) instead. Then Bannion permanently resigns from the police force and finds out that all of this was planned by the mob underworld led by Mike Lagana (played by Alexander Scourby) as well as his abusive henchman Vince Stone (played by Lee Marvin), then when Vince's wife Debby Marsh (played by Gloria Grahame) Vince then disfigures half of her face with hot coffee, and then Debby is more than ready for payback by telling Bannion all about Vince and all his other mob friends and what they did all along and the cop suicide case was a cover up. Theis movie compares to classics in it's genre such as Touch of Evil (1958), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Big Sleep, and some of Alfred Hitchcock's best films. What a great film this was.

Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates the suicide of a police colleague Tom Duncan. However the case turns darker and darker as he finds a corrupt system and its connection to a crime boss. Duncan's secret mistress Lucy Chapman is killed, and they start coming after the incorruptible cop.This is a surprisingly modern police drama from legendary director Fritz Lang. The first 30 minutes has some slower moments. Louis CK joked that he hated the part of his indie film where a character dials an entire phone number on a rotary phone. Sometimes, that's what we have here. It has some slow moments. It's something that must be excused for the era of movie making.The subject matter is tough noir and hard boiled. Glenn Ford plays the stand up cop perfectly. He has an air of moral superiority. He is a cross between John McClane and Dirty Harry. There is great violence. The story is tough. Gloria Grahame makes for a great noir dame. And Glenn Ford has great intensity.