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The Big Heat

Index The Big Heat

The Big Heat is a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Jocelyn Brando, and featuring Lee Marvin. [1]

57 relations: Academy Film Archive, Adam Williams (actor), AFI's 10 Top 10, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, Alexander Scourby, American Film Institute, Andrew Sarris, Bosley Crowther, Carolyn Jones, Charles Lang, Chris Alcaide, Columbia Pictures, Dan Seymour, Dorothy Green (actress), Edith Evanson, Edward G. Robinson, Film noir, Fritz Lang, George Raft, Gilda, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Gudrun, Henryk Wars, Howard Wendell, Jeanette Nolan, Jerry Wald, Jocelyn Brando, Kathryn Eames, Lee Marvin, Library of Congress, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Granger, Mise-en-scène, National Crime Syndicate, National Film Registry, Paul Muni, Penthouse apartment, Peter Whitney, Police commissioner, Put the Blame on Mame, Rex Reason, Rita Hayworth, Robert Arthur (film producer), Roger Ebert, Scarlet Street, Sydney Boehm, The Great Movies, The New York Times, ..., The Saturday Evening Post, The Woman in the Window, Variety (magazine), William P. McGivern, Willis Bouchey, World War II, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (7 more) »

Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Adam Williams (actor)

Adam Williams (born Adam Berg; November 26, 1922 – December 4, 2006) was an American film and television actor.

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AFI's 10 Top 10

AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years...

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting, action-packed, suspenseful or frightening movies in American cinema.

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Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby (November 13, 1913 – February 22, 1985) was an American film, television, and voice actor known for his deep and resonant voice.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic, a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film.

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Charles Lang

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California from the American Society of Cinematographers website) was an American cinematographer.

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Chris Alcaide

Chris Alcaide (born John Berger; October 23, 1922 – June 30, 2004) was an American actor, particularly known for his role in television westerns.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Dan Seymour

Dan Seymour (February 22, 1915 – May 25, 1993) was an American character actor who frequently played villains in Warner Bros. films.

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Dorothy Green (actress)

Dorothy Green (born Dorothy Jeanette Hufford; January 12, 1920 — May 8, 2008) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

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Edith Evanson

Edith Evanson (née Carlson; April 29, 1896 – November 29, 1980) was an American film actress.

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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Gilda

Gilda is a 1946 American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale and Glenn Ford as a young thug.

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Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship.

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Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American stage, film, television actress and singer.

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Gudrun

Gudrun (Old Norse Guðrún) or Kriemhild (Middle High German Kriemhilt) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature.

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Henryk Wars

Henryk Wars (born Henryk Warszawski; 29 December 1902 – 1 September 1977) was a Polish pop music composer.

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Howard Wendell

Howard Wendell, (January 25, 1908, Johnstown, Pennsylvania – August 11, 1975, Oregon City, Oregon), was an American actor.

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Jeanette Nolan

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress who was nominated for four Emmy Awards: in 1964, 1966, 1974 and 1978.

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Jerry Wald

Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs.

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Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn Brando (November 18, 1919November 27, 2005) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

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Kathryn Eames

Kathryn Eames (July 25, 1908 – December 12, 2004) was an American cinema, television and stage actress.

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Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.

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Michael Granger

Michael Granger (May 14, 1923 - October 22, 1981) Born Milton Grossman in Kansas City, MO, Granger was an American actor.

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Mise-en-scène

Mise-en-scène ("placing on stage") is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction.

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National Crime Syndicate

The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to the multi-ethnic, loosely connected American confederation of several criminal organizations, a confederation that mostly consisted of the closely interconnected Italian-American Mafia and Jewish mob but also included to various lesser extents Irish-American criminal organizations and other ethnic crime groups.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Paul Muni

Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago.

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Penthouse apartment

A penthouse apartment or a penthouse is an apartment or unit on the highest floor of an apartment building, condominium or hotel.

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Peter Whitney

Peter Whitney (born Peter King Engle; May 24, 1916 – March 30, 1972) was an American actor in film and television.

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Police commissioner

Police commissioner (also known as the commissioner of police) is a senior rank in many police forces.

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Put the Blame on Mame

"Put the Blame on Mame" is a song by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, originally written for the classic film noir Gilda in 1946, in which it was sung by the title character, played by Rita Hayworth with the singing voice of Anita Kert Ellis dubbed in.

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Rex Reason

Rex Reason (November 30, 1928 – November 19, 2015) was an American actor best known for his role in This Island Earth (1955).

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Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer.

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Robert Arthur (film producer)

Robert Arthur (November 1, 1909 – October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street is a 1945 drama film noir directed by Fritz Lang.

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Sydney Boehm

Sydney Boehm (April 4, 1908 – June 25, 1990) was an American screenwriter and producer.

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The Great Movies

The Great Movies is the name of several publications, both online and in print, from the film critic Roger Ebert.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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William P. McGivern

William Peter McGivern (December 6, 1918 - November 18, 1982) was an American novelist and television scriptwriter.

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Willis Bouchey

Willis Ben Bouchey (May 24, 1907 – September 27, 1977) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films and television shows.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Heat

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