Directed by:
Fritz LangScreenplay:
Sydney BoehmCinematography:
Charles LangComposer:
Henry VarsCast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
A hard boiled and uncorruptable cop single handedly investigates a string of murders leading to the exposition of an organized crime cartel. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Sidney Clute](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/874/159874738_c117e6.gif)
Sidney Clute
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
...And Justice for All (1979)
The Big Heat (1953)
![Ted Stanhope](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/894/159894228_20a693.gif)
Ted Stanhope
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Three Little Words (1950)
![Chris Alcaide](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/933/159933758_62fed6.jpg)
Chris Alcaide
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Illegal (1955)
The Wild One (1953)
![Joseph Mell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/933/159933946_9a0997.gif)
Joseph Mell
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
![Phil Arnold](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/936/159936031_659e0d.jpg)
Phil Arnold
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Big Heat (1953)
Lover Come Back (1961)
![Celia Lovsky](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/163/160163419_181889.jpg)
Celia Lovsky
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
![Edith Evanson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/299/160299902_e79757.jpg)
Edith Evanson
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Rope (1948)
Citizen Kane (1941)
![Paul Maxey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/400/160400840_077943.jpg)
Paul Maxey
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
![Robert Burton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/490/160490513_b7e9d1.gif)
Robert Burton
USA
Best movies:
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
![Linda Bennett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/032/161032264_a11b12.jpg)
Linda Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
John Close
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Michael Ross
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Phil Chambers
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Bounty Hunter (1954)
William Vedder
USA
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Gunfighter (1950)
John Merton
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Gilda (1946)
Lyle Latell
USA
Best movies:
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Texas (1941)
Douglas Evans
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Mike Mahoney
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Detective Story (1951)
Byron Kane
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Michael Granger
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Murder by Contract (1958)