The Big Heat (Lang, 1953): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
This is a 16mm screening in the Kennington Noir strand at the Cinema Museum.Chicago Reader review:
Fritz Lang’s sizzling 1953 film noir masterpiece features Glenn Ford (in
his best performance—perhaps his only performance) as an anguished cop
out to smash a maddeningly effete mobster (Alexander Scourby) and break
the hold he has on a corrupt city administration. With sensational
support from Lee Marvin as a sadistic hood and Gloria Grahame as
Marvin’s bad/good girlfriend, whose reward for hanging around is a
faceful of scalding coffee. Brutal, atmospheric, and exciting—highly
recommended.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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